Justify with heart, reveal with intention, and let emotional truth lead.
Great improv doesn’t stand alone on clever ideas, it’s built upon your foundation of specific choices, truthful emotional logic, and justification that actually reveals character instead of patching plot holes.
Let go of cleverness… and let emotional honesty carry the scene.
This intensive drills performers in:
- Building meaning through specificity
- Justifying with emotional logic instead of plot logic
- Showing the truth behind the line
- Reacting with humanity, not cleverness
- Turning choices into character, and character into momentum
- Committing emotionally and playing truthfully in imaginary circumstances
This class is intended for improvisers with established scenework experience who are ready for a more intensive and emotionally grounded challenge. Not recommended for beginning students.
Experience Level
Intermediate. Completed Improv Basics or equivalent beginning class.
Location
Unscrewed Theater
4500 E. Speedway Blvd. #39
Tucson, AZ 85715
About the Instructor
Jacque Arend is an actor, writer, and improviser with two decades of experience building shows, ensembles, festivals, training programs, and camps. She is currently a founder and Executive Director of SAVI FEST, a guest instructor and Managing Director of Improv Utopia (IU), a core teaching artist and Associate Artistic Director at Arizona Actors Academy (AZAA).
Recent credits include workshops at IU East, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, UofA School of Medicine, improv for performance intensives with AZAA. Jacque performs regularly around the Phoenix Valley, mainly at Second Beat Improv Theater. Her most recent artistic endeavor was a 10-minute solo performance piece in Space 55’s Muse Fest.