CCB Studios

Have you ever felt like you're in a group scene and felt absolutely overwhelmed by the chaos? Well, worry not because in this workshop, we'll work on group scenes that thrive on focus and specificity while also being fun! Learn to turn off your brain and go with the flow of group scenes where we...

Let’s make our scenes pop! This workshop, taught by Amanda Breen (UCB’s Training Center Director & former Director of Improv) is all about making your scenes more fun, surprising and deeply connected. We’ll tap into the love language of gift giving as we unleash a whole toolbox of gifts you can offer your scene partners:...

Tired of games involving a "voice of reason/unusual one" or "peas in a pod"? This workshop focuses on playing games where you’re in a weird world. Rather than the scenes we usually find ourselves in, with a voice of reason or peas in a pod, we’ll work on creating scenes where the entire world the...

Everyone always says the key to game is the first unusual thing. But what if you can’t find the unusual thing? How do you get one? Do you feel like you have to force weird elements into a scene? This workshop focuses on making strong, grounded choices. We’ll work on ways to make clear, efficient...

Make a mark at the beginning of every set by doing an opening that is right for your team! In this class we will go over various openings to see which ones feel more fun and have premises that the team can use! We'll incorporate the openings and do scenes showcasing how framing a premise...

We're taught that clearly establishing the who, what, where at the top of a scene is crucial. But are you living in and seeing your where or just telling us? In this workshop with UCB's Training Center Director and former Director of Improv, Amanda Breen (AB), you'll learn how to build and actively use your...

Ever been in a scene and realized that all you did was sit and talk to your partner, or never quite made the location work for you? Well, get out of your head and into your body! This workshop is meant to make you incorporate physicality through object work and space work to help us...

This workshop will concentrate on the foundation of scene work and how it applies to more complex relationship-based scenes. The focus will be on sustaining, balancing and making strong choices for the sake of the scene regardless of how many people are on stage. Using exercises that isolate certain aspects of scene work, we’ll break...

In this workshop we will approach scene-work through the lens of character. The goals: to unearth authentic, relatable characters from within the scene, to create characters that are in service to the relationship with your scene partner, and to create opportunities to surprise yourself on stage.

Every scene needs an initiation. And yes, for those of us whose brains are capable of doing the quick mental gymnastics necessary to construct a perfect premise initiation on the fly, premise initations are great. This workshop is for the rest of us. In this workshop, we're going to drill down to the bare bones...

This scenework-focused workshop will help you use what you know play to the top of your intelligence. We'll cover making real, grounded choices and using specifics based on the information that you have floating around in your brain to create characters, game and to drive your scenes and make you and your fellow improvisers look...

Don’t let your freak flag touch the ground, let’s have that flag FLY! Game is all talk until we activate it through our physicality, character and location. That is where the real fun begins, allowing us to make new, interesting and surprising moves. In this workshop with Amanda Breen, UCB's Training Center Director and former...