Advanced Musical Improv Intensive: Earning, Titling and Delivering Your Songs

Advanced Musical Improv Intensive: 

Earning, Titling and Delivering Your Songs

Do you find it challenging to identify what to sing about from within your scenes? Do your improv scenes only sometimes lead to satisfying songs? Is it a struggle to find a single focus for your songs? Then this class is for you!

In this six-hour advanced intensive, you’ll learn key skills to help you improvise within your scene with purpose–allowing you to earn a song worth singing.

Jed will help you understand the four phases of any musical improv scene: Discovery, refinement, titling and singing, and give you tools to navigate them. By following this organic process, you’ll ensure the songs you land on are natural outgrowths from the scene with purpose and focus. 

The morning session will focus on scenic choices without a Musical Director. In the afternoon, we’ll bring in an MD and shift focus to titling and delivering our songs.

Because of the advanced scenework required, this class is for intermediate to advanced musical improvisers with at least a year of experience performing improv.

If you are planning to take Musical Improv 3 at All Out Comedy in January, this class includes some overlapping content.

The Instructor: Jed Levine

Jed is an All Out Comedy instructor and mainstage cast member with over a decade of experience as a musical improviser, coach and teacher. You can find him performing improvised musicals twice a month with the team he co-created and coaches, Knockoff Broadway. He also coaches several independent musical improv teams and the All Out Comedy musical improv house team RiOt: An Improvised Rock Opera.

Jed is a graduate of the Second City Musical Improv Conservatory in Chicago and is an alumni of the critically-acclaimed musical improv company Baby Wants Candy. In the Bay Area, Jed has been a guest player for improvised musicals at BATS Improv and teaches musical improv at Leela in San Francisco where he coaches the musical improv P.I.E. team. Jed is the founder of Bay Area Musical Improv, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for local musical improvisers, and a co-founder of the Bay Area Musical Improv Festival.

Requirements: Intermediate to advanced musical improvisers with at least a year of experience performing improv.

Date: December 6, Saturday: 10:00am-1:00pm, 2:00pm-5:00pm

Registration: $120

Location: All Out Comedy Theater, 2550 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612

*Please check your maps says Oakland. There's a duplicate address in Berkeley.