The Movie – Paul Vaillancourt Workshop

Sunday, March 8, 2020

In this intense three-hour workshop Paul will use his 15+ years of experience with the Improvised Movie to teach students the basic skills necessary to improvise movies of their own! Basic skills include: camera technique, use of genre, scene painting and the “teepee method” of story telling. For movie lovers and lovers of linear narrative in general.

Workshop with Paul Vaillancourt.


Paul Vaillancourt is a writer, actor, director, producer and most of all improvisor who has been teaching and performing improv across the country for more than 25 years. He is a graduate of the Comedy Sportz Training Program in Virginia, the Second City Training Center in Chicago as well as the legendary iO in Chicago where he had the rare opportunity to study under the legendary Del Close. After his group, Bitter Noah, was selected to perform their signature piece, the Improvised Movie, at the US Comedy Arts festival Paul moved to Los Angeles and founded the iO West where he has been teaching, directing and performing (both written and improvised shows) ever since.

During his time in Hollywood Paul has become a sought after improv coach, producer, writer and consultant working with many TV networks including Fox, MTV, VH1, Oxygen, History and Bravo to name a few. Recently, he also authored “The Triangle of the Scene: a simple, practical, powerful method for approaching improvisation” available on iBooks and Amazon Kindle. He is also the creator and host of Improv Tips on his YouTube channel PVImprov. Currently Paul is performing Man vs. Movie (the world’s only one-man improvised movie).


Students must be 18 years or older. Tuition is non-refundable.

Unscrewed Theater is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching, performing, and producing all forms of live improvisational theater in Tucson, AZ.


Enroll in All Four Paul Vaillancourt Workshops!