Lyrics That Matter: Put Poetry, Storytelling & Silence into Your Songs

Instructors: Aden and Eric Nepom (Portland, OR)

Take your improvised song-making up several notches with this lyrical workshop. Aden and Eric Nepom will explore several lyrical techniques that will give you more tools and choices to make your songs memorable and inspiring!

In this workshop, you’ll learn lyrical strategies rooted in emotion, poetry, storytelling, non-verbal tools and more, resulting in solo songs, duets and group numbers that are catchy, fulfilling and surprisingly sophisticated.

Student Information

This workshop is open to those with at least some musical improv experience, such as having performed musical improv or taken a class.

Workshop Capacity

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

About the Instructors

Real life couple Aden and Eric Nepom have been improvising for over 60 years between the two of them. They have been playing together for roughly eleven years, and have only been married for eight blissful years. Recognized for outstanding skills in theatre, speech, communication and development, these two share a passion for committed character work, grounded platform building and that moment where one realizes that anything can happen in improv! Individually they’ve created programming, won awards and traveled the world as improv teachers, stage performers and educators. Together, they’ve taught and performed on stages from as close as 20 minutes from their house, to as far away as Tel Aviv. Their festival appearances include the Fertile Ground Festival in Portland, OR, the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin, TX, the Alaska State Improv Festival in Juneau, AK, the Seattle Festival of Improvised Theatre in Seattle, WA, New York Musical Improv Fest in NY, and Mount Olymprov Greek International Improv Festival in Athens, Greece and many more.

Host or Publisher Bay Area Musical Improv