CSz Los Angeles

This workshop will offer techniques on teaching improv/theatre on Zoom, for the secondary-classroom educator. It will be fun, give you tools you can use tomorrow, and might involve a cocktail. This informative workshop will be taught in one afternoon with a healthy break in the middle to avoid Zoom fatigue. For people in the midwest or eastern time zones, this will fall as a dinner break.

You may also choose an option to receive James’ book, “Teaching Improv: A Practical Guide for Theatre Educators,” which is written specifically for the classroom educator, and formatted into 50 sequential lessons. The book includes a “script” for teaching and suggestions for debriefing. Priority mail shipping is included.

James Thomas Bailey is director/producer of ComedySportz, LA’s longest running show (32 years). Additionally, he has produced more than fifty other professional productions in Los Angeles. Mr. Bailey is well known as a master teacher, with clients such as Google, Disney, ABC, and Microsoft. He serves as Cultural Specialist for the U.S. State Department and regularly teaches theatre techniques in Cyprus. His youth program, the ComedySportz High School League®, is the largest teen improvisational theatre program in the United States. Other improvisational productions include the all-female Shakespearean Chickspeare (which performed in Hollywood for 8 years, and for five years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and U-sical, a full-length improvised musical based on the life of an audience member. He is Past-President of the CA Educational Theatre Association, and inducted into both the CA Thespian Hall of Fame and EdTA’s national Hall of Fame. He is a proud theatre educator at Justin-Siena HS (Napa).