Improv for Duos

2-Player Improv can feel intimidating. With only two brains on stage, the high-wire act may feel even higher stakes than usual - no breaks, no group games, and no chance of getting help from your teammates on the sidelines. But with time and space to pay extra close attention to our scene partner’s gifts, we find that less really is more!
In this workshop, participants will learn tactics for working with a single partner by prioritizing deep attention and trust. The result: scenework, characters, patterns and moves that are full of fun discoveries and easy to sustain. With specific skills and a mindset focused on making your scene partner look incredible (and making all of their gifts matter), your 2-player improv stays alive, engaging, and never feels like something you’re stuck inside.

About The Instructors

Touch Baseball is an award winning, long-form two-person improv team featuring long-time St. Louis improvisers and teachers, Ryan Myers and Ashley Rube. After playing together on numerous teams for over 3 years, they formed Touch Baseball at the outset of the pandemic to find hope and distraction from the literal end of the world.
Five years later Ryan and Ashley continue to bring what they love most about improv to the stage with Touch Baseball: patient, grounded scene work that is focused on relationship, committed to emotional honesty, and open to discovering what’s funny about life’s hard moments.
Touch Baseball is a mainstay among Improv Shop House Teams (200+ shows). They have also performed and/or taught workshops at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Out of Bounds Festival (Austin, TX), Nestival (Columbus, OH), Bellingham Improv Festival (Bellingham, WA) Third Coast Comedy (Nashville, TN) Fest, Omaha Comedy Fest, Countdown (Tampa, FL) Grand Rapids Improv Festival, Asheville Improv Fest, Countdown Festival, and Flyover Comedy (St. Louis) Festivals.

Only at The Bird.

The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City's Best Comedy Theater. Featuring Improv, Sketch, Stand-Up, and more every week in the Crossroads Arts District. Voted KC's Best Comedy Club & Improv/Sketch Troupe since 2023; Best Theater Company & Open Mic since 2024 in The Pitch Best of KC. Give Your Week The Bird.

Full Bar, Soft Drinks, & Popcorn available at our in house bar!

Street parking available! Located a block and a half from the 19th Street Street Car stop!

Recommended for ages 17+

103 W. 19th St. STE B Kansas City, MO 64108 | 816-929-4383 | www.TheBirdKC.com

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