Improvising Life - An Improv Class For Beginners

We will practice Improv skills with focus on how we can use them in our real lives.

* 6 sessions of 90 minutes each

*Mornings at 8 AM ET

* ONLY $125 USD

* Conducted over zoom

* All times are ET

* Taught by Radical Agreement hero, Fran Randall

We will practice Improv skills with focus on how we can use them in our real lives.

Listening (job interviews, social events, dating, family get togethers, raising kids, performance evals, coaching…).

Pacing. Practicing the technique of speaking one syllable for each heartbeat, in made-up scenes, and in real-life monologues where we are promoting a business or presenting an idea or sharing information that is important to us. as we do this, our thoughts begin to relax. And it becomes easier to come from authentic passion.

Succinctness. In made up scenes and in role-playing from real life, we will act out situations. And then repeating them with the goal of emphasizing our main points and deleting the unnecessary.

Comprehension. Initiating scenes with real life situations we will explore the variety of ways a statement might be interpreted.

As we hear our same partners or role players responding from so many different points of view, we can increase our awareness and hone our speaking.

Fun. We will do scenes inspired by memories of good Times we enjoyed. And we will practice bringing up the feelings from those times in some of our scenes or practices of real life situations.

Communication. We will talk about real life areas where we would like to clarify our communication. And we will do scenes or role-playing in line with our goals.

If you would like to add or expand the topics for this class, you can email me, Fran Randall, at: fran4au@gmail.com

**Students should be able to participate with their camera & microphones on during sessions

***This class has a rating of R, meaning subject matters, attitudes and presentation of material may be as adult as content routinely considered of an R nature within movies

Fran Randall, Instructor Bio

I first heard about improv several years ago when my Toastmasters group insisted I take classes at Improv Chattanooga. The first time I did Improv I totally fell in love with it and have been since. When the pandemic started I immediately searched for online improv and played weekly with Watch This Space in Barcelona and What’s The Game in England, and many others around the world. I absolutely adore the classes taught by Terry Withers and am very grateful.

I led weekly online recorded jams for my Facebook groups: Woman Kind Improv and PG-Prov. And performed with an international female identifying improv troupe called The Chick Peas. I taught in person improv to teens at Lift-Ringgold Youth Center, initiated by my daughter, aiming to lower teen suicide rates by honoring gender identities. I perform in person with the troupe of Improv Chattanooga.

Writing is my soul. I love to stay in touch with the flowing fountain within. To keep on creating, especially poetry, where words sound like music. I love to inspire others to write, and I enjoy workshops combining writing and improv. While I was on the board of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, I co-led the children’s writing and journal-making day at Chattanooga Readers and Writers Fair.

I majored in French and minored in Russian Secondary Education at LSU, where I received a full scholarship for extemporaneous speaking in French. I also received a full scholarship and a Masters in Business from Tulane University, New Orleans.

For two years, I co-led a weekly Nature Journaling Meetup, where we wrote, sketched, walked, photographed, and observed, exploring a different gorgeous trail each week. My favorite beings on the planet are my daughter and three granddaughters, five grand cats, and a grand dog.