IMPROV 101: THE SPIRIT OF PLAY WINTER 2025 – North with Anne Dowd
Mondays 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
January 27, 2025 to March 3, 2025
with Anne Dowd
at Merlin Works North: ZACH North
14010 US-183 Hwy Suite 540, Cedar Park, TX 78613
Learn the fundamentals of improvisation. The class’s interactive exercises build listening and communication skills, heighten awareness, and teach you how to be more playful, spontaneous and flexible. Dive into Yes And, Storytelling, and Performance Games. All while playing and laughing with your new improv buddies.
(6 meetings. Class Size Minimum=7, Max Limit = 16)
Anne Dowd discovered that improv was her love language at DePaul University in 2000. She studied improv at several Chicago institutions including the Second City Conservatory, iO Chicago and the Annoyance Theater. She has performed with various independent improv teams over the years as well as in scripted and musical theater shows in and around Chicagoland.
After moving to Austin, she found community through training and performing at the Hideout Theater and uncovered a zest for adult-themed puppet shows via zoom-prov and later directed Boulevard Q, an in-person queer improvised puppet show, at the Hideout Theater.
By day, she is a Speech Language Pathologist and works with young adults with communication needs. She enjoys playing the piano and guitar as well as performing with her two-person improv team Anne and Jan Have No Plan.
