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Laughter Starts Here: Improv Comedy Jam/Class, Saturdays 12pm, Times Square NYC, January 28 thru March 26

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Laughter Starts Here: Improv Comedy Jam/Class, Saturdays 12pm, Times Square NYC, January 28 thru March 26

Treat yourself and/or your loved ones to much needed laughter!!!

Improv Comedy help students discover their best selves building self confidence, creative writing, critical thinking and public speaking. We offer weekly classes year round. We also offer a similar program to corporate groups to teach team, leadership, sales and service skills.

Every week featured a series of games that warm up the team, develop a variety of skills, and practice live performance techniques.

Our Governing Principals

  • Our #1 Rule HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense.
  • Improv #1 Rule YES! AND… accept your teammates for who they are and what they offer to the team. (Psychological Safety, #1 factor in team success) AND support team by pulling your weight (Performance Drive/Pressure). In balance there is nothing a team can’t over come and or figure out to succeed.
  • #1 Skill in Improv Comedy/Theater? LISTENING Listening with your eyes. Listening with the willingness to change. Listening has been identified as the #1 skill of a great leader.

Walt Frasier, Artistic Director

Walt Frasier has 20 years of event entertainment/ management and 25+ years professional arts performance and education.  International Theater, music and comedy credits includes TV appearances: Billions, Blues Bloods, Royal Pains, Lilyhammer, Letterman, HBO, MTV etc. College Clients include Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Williams,  Georgetown, Hofstra, Molloy, etc. Corporate Clients includes JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Milbank, Mercedes, Ernst & Young, BAML, UBS, UNILEAVER, Google, META, Twitter,  and 1000s more. 

Corporate Improv Comedy New York Improv Theater – Team Building, Leadership, Sales, Service Training

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August 2022 Workshop for NYC Marketing team at our Times Square NYC theater.

Why Corporate Improv Comedy Workshops

Simply playing improv comedy games builds creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence, self awareness and more. We use these games to develop teams, leadership, sales and service skills. Playing these games replaces 1000s of lectures and books merely discuss. 

Saturdays 12pm -3pm, Times Square NYC. Develop valuable life skills having a ton of fun!!!! Pictured Team building workshops for JP Morgan Chase, Bing, Ernst & Young.

What will your team do in our Improv Comedy Workshop

Our 90-120 minutes workshop is a series of games. We start warming up team and individual skills, passing funny sounds, words and energy around standing in a circle. The first 30-60 minutes include games with the full engaged. The next 30-60 will feature games with 6-10 on stage with others in the audience. As time permits we play games performing for each other.

Our Governing Principals

  • Our #1 Rule HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense.
  • Improv #1 Rule YES! AND… accept your teammates for who they are and what they offer to the team. (Psychological Safety, #1 factor in team success) AND support team by pulling your weight (Performance Drive/Pressure). In balance there is nothing a team can’t over come and or figure out to succeed.
  • #1 Skill in Improv Comedy/Theater? LISTENING Listening with your eyes. Listening with the willingness to change. Listening has been identified as the #1 skill of a great leader.

Our team is full of experienced teachers and performers ready to make your next event memorable and educational.

Psychogical Safety, according to four year study by Google is the #1 factor in team success!

CLICK HERE to get our FREE PDF on Psychological Safety developed simply playing Improv games.

FREE BOOK How to play popular Improv Games

Walt Frasier, Artistic Director

Walt Frasier international credits include theater, comedy, music and TV (Blacklist, Billions, Blue Bloods, Letterman, HBO, MTV etc)

Saturdays 10am Comedy 4 Teens Class Times Square NYC

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comedy school

Improv and Stand-Up Comedy help students discover their best selves building self confidence, creative writing, critical thinking and public speaking. We offer weekly classes Winter, Spring and Fall, plus Summer Camps. We also have teachers at schools, camps and community centers on weekends and after school. Each session starts with Improvisation, playing games that are a ton of fun while teaching valuable life skills. These are the same games we play with corporate groups to develop better leaders, team building, sales, service etc. For our public sessions we include Stand-Up Comedy, taking stories of experience and observation, then crafting original comedy routines. Each session ends with a performance showcase of original and improvised comedy skits completely created by the students. The classes and workshops integrate perfectly with cultural arts, language arts and character building/guidance

Walt Frasier has 20 years of event entertainment/ management (Including 7000+ professional Improv Comedy shows for k12/family audiences) and 25+ years professional arts performance and education. International Theater, music and comedy credits includes TV appearances: Billions, Blues Bloods, Royal Pains, Lilyhammer, Letterman, HBO, MTV etc. College Clients include Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Williams, Georgetown, Hofstra, Molloy, etc. Corporate Clients includes JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Milbank, Mercedes, Ernst & Young, BAML, UBS, UNILEAVER, Google, META, Twitter, and 1000s more.

1/8 Sunday 3pm Off Broadway Interactive Musical Improv Comedy LIVE Times Square NYC

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1/8 Sunday 3pm Off Broadway Interactive Musical Improv Comedy LIVE Times Square NYC

  • Hosted by Walt Frasier (international theater, musi, comedy and TV credits include Billions, Blue Bloods, Letterman, HBO, MTV etc)
  • With Amelia Fowler (POSE, Blue Bloods, Many Saints of Newark, FBI, Orange IS the New Black etc)
  • Executive and co-founder Laurice Fattal popular political sketch channel https://www.tiktok.com/lauricef?_t=8YmK0U3Z870&_r=1
  • Mike Gorman (popular #Pokémon TikTok channel https://www.tiktok.com/@mikefunnyboi?_t=8YmJxrwKvhz&_r=1
  • Grant Ray, relatively new to NYC but already taking city by storm working on Law & Order, and producing Viking Improv

1/7 Saturday 3pm Walt Frasier hosts Off-Broadway Interactive Musical Improv Comedy, LIVE Times Square NYC

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Interactive Musical Comedy improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. Live from Times Square NYC since 2002.
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Come be a part of the show!!!

Hosted by Walt Frasier (international TV, theater, comedy and music credits include Billions, HBO, MTV, Blue Bloods, Letterman, Lilyhammee etc)
@waltfrasier

With
Amelia Fowler (POSE, FBI, Blue Bloods, Many Saints of Newark etc) @lonecocoapuff

Myra Beji (Series Regular on THE QUEST, Disney +, plus stand up comedy, modeling, etc). Myra is a former 8 Improv student turned colleague. @officialmyrab

Plus

Samuel Van Wyk is an actor/improvisor based in New York City. As an improviser, Samuel has performed for thousands of students and adults. He has also lead Improvisational workshops for all ages from kindergarten students to senior executives and everything in between. Samuel has lead workshops on the benefit of improv in a business setting for professionals in the education and medical field as well as corporate clients like IBM, Bing, and JP Morgan. As an actor, Samuel works in TV, Film, and Theatre. Samuel has appeared in such TV shows as Evil Talks, Diabolical, and Mysteries at the Museum. Favorite stage roles include Malcolm (The Full Monty), Hal (Proof), and Snoopy (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!). @iamsamvw

Nicholas Nieves is a storyteller that blends his unique style of writing with comedic acting to entertain the masses. You can see Nicholas bring humor every week at The Magnet Theater (Musical Megawatt) and The Broadway Comedy Club (8Improv). @nicknacknieves