Tools for the Top with Josh Nicols
This workshop will show simple resilient methods of making thoughtless choices at the top of scenes that will manifest as gifts of character, relationship and tension. They find playable inspiration from your suggestion and scene partners, These tools help build muscles in listening, show don’t tell, physicality, and Yes AND.
This workshop will push for maximum reps, with quick side-coaching and brief player specific feedback. We will get right into it.
Instructor: Josh Nicols
Date: Tuesday, May 19th
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:15 pm
Student Cap: 14
Experience: Intro to improv
Cost: $40
Josh Nicols is the Education Director and co-owner of RISE Comedy. Josh has been a professional improv teacher, producer and performer for 3 decades. He has studied under instructors from iO West & Chicago, The Annoyance Theater, Groundlings, UCB, and Second City. He has performed and taught all around the country and abroad. He also served as the Training Center Director at the Westside Comedy Theater, prior to that he was the Artistic Director/ Co-Owner of Spectacles Improv Engine in Fullerton Ca. He created and directed 7 years of The Orange County Improv Festival and is a founder and former director of The Improv Cup. He is a member of the teams Community Theater 3000 & Tapestry. He has also directed full length improvised plays, which included The Awkward Party, Post Apocalyptic Bunker Comedy and Prentendessee Williams, with the Awkward Party receiving the accolade “Best Play of the Year” from the OC Weekly.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Location
Second Beat Improv Theater
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