Improvisation For Actors - 6 Week Course

6 WEEK COURSE | 1 SESSION PER WEEK (3 hours)
Learn story structure and joke structure through long-form improvisation. We will teach participants how to build stories using emotional and character connection, encouraging ways of creating comedy without the need to “be funny”.

Join Mischief founding member, Harry Kershaw , as he guides you through some of the fundamental principles used to create Mischief’s multi award-winning global hits The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the BBC TV series The Goes Wrong Show, and many more.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for performers who are either currently working in, or about to enter, the performance industry.

To be eligible, participants must provide proof of one of the following:

• Membership with Spotlight or Mandy
• Professional representation
• Current training in, or recent graduation from, an acting/performance programme at a higher education institution (e.g., university or accredited drama school)
  Note: All participants must be 18 years or older at the time of the first session.

Course Details
Location: Dance Attic, 368 North End Rd, London, SW6 1LY
Dates: Every Monday from 12th January – 16th February 2026
Time: 18:00 – 21:00

Full schedule:

• Monday 12th January 2026 – 18:00–21:00
• Monday 19th January 2026 – 18:00–21:00
• Monday 26th January 2026 – 18:00–21:00
• Monday 2nd February 2026 – 18:00–21:00
• Monday 9th February 2026 – 18:00–21:00
• Monday 16th February 2026 – 18:00–21:00
  

About the Instructor
Harry is a founding member of Mischief Theatre and co-creator & regular performer in Olivier nominated ‘Mischief Movie Night’. He has over a decade’s experience teaching at some of the UK’s leading drama schools, schools and youth theatres and leading corporate workshops as well as leading Mischief’s improvisation workshops.

Harry taught improvisation at LAMDA between 2019-2023 and also teaches improvisation at Arts Ed and Associated Studios as well as the Cambridge Acting Academy. Harry has taught at Drama Studio London and for flair box and Scoot Theatre, west end stage tours and Just add milk. Harry also teaches corporate workshops in improvisation and creativity including recently for Boots.

Harry is a graduate of the RADA BA in acting and the LAMDA foundation course and has performed on the West End and Broadway and for NT live as well as having film and tv credits which include Wallander, Endeavour, Cuckoo and Skyfall.

Questions?

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Info: In the first session, we’ll explore the core tenets of improvisation: listening, accepting, and committing. You’ll learn how, through these three steps, we can begin to work together to build a story in an approachable way, without pressure or fear. The focus will be on truly listening to one another, embracing each other’s ideas, and building trust through wholehearted commitment to those shared offers

Info: In this second session we take our first steps into scene work; learning about the circle of expectation and how to build scenes by engaging with your scene partner. The focus is on removing the pressure to “generate” ideas and instead encouraging playful, collaborative teamwork

Info: Building on the scene work from Week 2, Week 3 introduces the concept of mining the offer. Using the skills developed previously, we’ll explore how to build on the first offer made in a scene—removing the pressure to constantly generate new material and instead focusing on deepening what’s already there.

Info: Emotional commitment and emotional change; all good stories come from an emotional connection with the characters. This week will teach the value of emotional connections within scenes and stories, it will also show how comedy can easily be built out of emotional commitment.

Info: Continue to build on the themes from the first four weeks. Using exercises that will encourage the practice of: listen, accept, commit, emotional change, mining the offer and making clear simple choices. We will also introduce basic story structure and improvise “opening scenes”.

Info: At this stage, we’ll begin working towards creating the opening 15–20 minutes of a longer narrative, using all the tools and techniques developed so far. This process will be supported and guided by the instructor, helping you to apply your skills in a more extended storytelling format.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dance Attic, 368 North End Rd, London, United Kingdom

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