In this workshop, Kat Bond will teach you the basics of using improv as a starting point to start devising, creating your own stories and building material for shows and projects. You’ll look at how you can mine and use your own mood, experiences and magic on stage to build more realistic, grounded characters. The workshop will help you find quick ways of freeing yourself, get into a creative space and take away some nerves.
Together, you’ll explore how to become more comfortable committing to both strong and subtle emotional choices, as well as tapping into your own emotional space when you enter rehearsals, auditions and gigs. This will include looking at personal preparation techniques, finding ways to feel comfortable in your own skin and using your own idiosyncrasies to support your improv choices.
About Kat Bond
Kat is a comic, actress, writer and improviser from Essex. When not making shows with other theatre companies – she most recently toured with Breach Theatre’s hit show It’s True, It’s True, It’s True – she is gigging her own unique comedy shows that combine stand up, clown, improv and autobiographical stories about awkward situations. Kat had the honour of working for Cardboard Citizens on Kae Tempest’s Glass House in 2016. As an actor, Kat’s TV credits include Eastenders, CBBC’s BAFTA award-winning Class Dismissed, and Kerry Godliman’s Amazon Prime show Whitstable Pearl. She most recently won The Funny Women Comedy Writing Award and has been typing away ever since. She fell for improv six years ago and trained and plays with the London improv school, Free Association.
