Improv Workshop - Patrick Williams

This workshop explores how to create and interact with your surroundings to bring your improv scenes to life.

THE WORKSHOP

Transforming Space: Mastering Environment in Improv explores how to create and interact with your surroundings to bring scenes to life with authenticity and depth. Participants will learn to build vivid, believable settings that ground their characters and strengthen interactions through effective space and object work. The workshop also focuses on giving objects personal meaning and fully committing to the environment to make performances more convincing. Open to both new and experienced improvisers, this session empowers performers to turn ordinary spaces into dynamic, immersive stages.

THE INSTRUCTOR

Patrick Darwin Williams is an actor, improviser, instructor, and comedian based out of Queens, NY. Patrick holds a BA in Acting from the University of South Carolina with a cognate in Dance, as well as an MFA in acting from The New School for Drama. Film and TV credits include Bobby Fischer in Mysteries of the Museum, Cinemax's Girl's Guide to Depravity, Archaeology of a Woman starring Sally Kirkland, Civic Duty starring Joe List and Tommy Pope, and the Goon in Pulling Wool (Winner Best Screenplay Manhattan Film Festival). He is an active commercial actor/voice over artist, skilled at impressions, and proud to be represented by BBR. Patrick has taught and performed comedy across the US, Canada, and Europe and is presently a performer and instructor at the People's Improv Theater in Manhattan. He has appeared as a host at Joe's Pub and at benefit auctions across New York. Patrick is happy living in Queens with his wife, son, and two cats @patrickdarwinwilliams and patrickdarwinwilliams.com