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February 23, 2024

Local/Personal: Musical Improv Classes in Baltimore

Hi!

You know how Brian and I perform improvised musicals together?

A group of ~20 people in a photo, making silly faces and poses
A class photo -- from the free first-Wednesdays musical improv jam series, co-hosted with Highwire Improv.

As of March, we'll be teaching even more people how to do this!

Classes in March/April

These two classes will cover the same core content, but are on different days, locations, and durations.

  • Highwire Improv's Fundamentals of Musical Improv runs as a four-week two-hour class starting on Wednesday, March 6 from 7-9pm at Roland Park Community Center, 5802 Roland Avenue.

  • Baltimore Improv Group's Intro to Musical Improv runs as a four-week three-hour class starting on Tuesday, March 16 from 6:30pm-9:30pm.

There are also scholarships available through both theaters.

We're Already In The News

Our classes got covered by Broadway World this week!

They're excited for us, too 🤓

Our Journey

Baltimore hasn't had any multi-week musical improv classes since 2017. People would have to take classes in DC or NYC to get comfortable enough to perform. Or some people would just jump in and struggle! (like me lol)

We HAVE been running a monthly meetup through our nonprofit for years now -- but it never gets to go quite deep enough for folks to become comfortable performing. What we've been missing is some multi-week classes, where folks can learn and go deeper together as a group...

SO in January, Brian and I did a week-long intensive training up in NYC last month -- and now we're bringing these lessons back to Baltimore!

We're even going BACK to NYC in late March for round two of the intensive, and we'll bring back even more teaching tricks.

Of course, we'll be teaching things our own Baltimore-y way. More old bay flavor; less dollar-slice-pizza flavor. 🦀

We've already been invited to teach in DC sometime, too! Maybe we will eventually 😁

Who's Interested?

Know anyone who makes up songs? And/or sings to themselves?

Let them know that they can do musical improv in Baltimore now!


This is all so much fun!! 🤩

Casey Watts!

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