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Workshop Details

Workshop Date: Saturday, April 18, 2026 @ 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM MT
Location: RISE Comedy, 1260 22nd St, Denver, CO 80205
Instructor(s): Toby Yount
Price: $55/person

Special Notes:

Students will receive an email with class details and links 12-24 hours before the class. If you do not see this email, please check your spam folder as well!

Minimum class size is 8 students.

Acting Techniques for Improvisers with Toby Yount - Saturday, April 18, 2026 @ 11:00 AM

What to learn acting techniques to level up your improv? Want to learn improv techniques to help your script analyisis and your acting? In this workshop we plan to do both.

What to learn acting techniques to level up your improv? Want to learn improv techniques to help your script analysis and your acting? In this workshop we plan to do both.

Anytime you are on stage you are doing some form of acting whether scripted or unscripted, playing close to yourself or a larger than life character you are acting. I will guide you through exercises that help you find your want in a scene, keep your characters believable, explore subtext, and staying engaged and present with your scene partner. When we get to the script analysis section of the workshop I will be primarily be using Richard Brestoff and Uta Hagen acting principles. If any of this sounds like something you love come on by and take this workshop! For this workshop I will say you will need at least one year of improv or acting training and/or performance experience to get the most out of this.

Instructor: Toby Yount (They/He) is an actor/improviser from Denver, Colorado. Toby blends over a decade of improv experience and training from Bovine Theater, Annoyance, and IO in Chicago, with an MFA in Acting from Savannah College Art of Design. Toby uses their acting-improv fusion techniques to create absurd and grounded characters – often at the same time. In addition to winning Season 7 of Denver’s Next Improv Star at the Bovine Theater, they have performed in Bad Play Done Terribly, does a solo improv show Toybox, and are proud to be the second half of the Denver-grown improv duo Chocolate Thunder and Vanilla Lightning. Toby has also worked as a professional actor for companies such as Phamaly Theater Company, Curious Theater Company, and toured internationally as a performer for the True Colors Festival in Japan and written his own one man show SIlicon Soul that he performed in the Denver Fringe Festival. Through following his dreams and aspirations of becoming a professional voice actor, actor, writer, and comedian, Toby has discovered a passion for teaching improv that they’d be honored to share with you all.