Advanced Music Improv: A Diagnostic Workshop for Your Needs

Instructor: Shulie Cowen (Los Angeles)

This advanced workshop is an opportunity for experienced musical improvisers to get individual attention and feedback, with a particular focus on two-person scenes and duets. Exercises will be customized to the particular issues students are facing in their musical improv, with a focus on giving you tools that you can put to use on stage immediately.

This workshop is something like a personalized coaching session with Shulie Cowen, the director and co-founder of Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!, which has been running for over 25 years in Los Angeles.

Student Information

This workshop is open to those who have studied or performed musical improv at the intermediate or advanced level. Because of the advanced nature of this workshop, those who have only taken one musical improv class should enroll in a different workshop.

Workshop Capacity

To ensure the quality of the student experience, this workshop is capped at 14 students.

About the Instructor

Shulie Cowen has taught improv to kids, senior citizens, and everyone in between. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, a former member of The Second City National Touring Company, and a member of the original cast of Schoolhouse Rock Live!. Shulie studied improv in Chicago at The Second City Training Center, The Annoyance Theatre, and at iO with Del Close. She has taught at iO West and The Second City LA and currently directs and performs in Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® every Friday at iO West in Los Angeles.

Host or Publisher Bay Area Musical Improv