Using What You Already Have: Simplifying Your Choices in Improv with Toby Yount (11/22 @11am) - Sat 11/22/25 @ 11:00 AM

 The beautiful thing about improv is that it can be anything and one of the most challenging things is that it can be anything. There’s so many choices you can make it’s hard to know what choice to make and you can feel stuck and feel like you’re inventing rather than being in the moment with your scene partner. In this workshop I will show ways you can simplify your choices and figuring out what works for you. That way you don’t feel the feeling of paralysis or have the thought of did I make the right choice or the “perfect” choice. You can just know you made the “authentic” choice for yourself that will support you and your scene partner. A win win. The exercises will be focusing mostly on repetition, figuring out what choices you naturally lean towards and introducing an improv form I learned in Georgia called Groundhogs Day. This workshop is good for everyone but it is aimed for beginner and intermideate improvisers

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.