“bring yourself to improv day”

owen scrivens

Friday 14th November: 10:30am - 1:30pm

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We all have personal knowledge and experience – this workshop looks at how we can use our passions, work, culture and interests to create great improvisation. 

This workshop has been built on my personal experiences co-creating Living. Dying. Dead. that brought together my work as a doctor, my interest in dramatic structure, and a passion for talking openly about death. 

Will include sections on performance, direction, and format creation.

Learning outcomes:

- How to use specificity without alienating the audience and your fellow actors

- How to direct others using your personal experience

- Find the drama in everyday life

About Owen Scrivens

Owen has been improvising for over 20 years. During that time, he has been lucky to learn from and perform with great improvisers from the UK and the rest of the world. Having never learned a specific “school of thinking” Owen loves improvisation that is theatrical and emotional, but without ever forgetting the joy of comic improv.

Owen was co-director of Open Heart Theatre in Newcastle, is co-director of Playing Dead Theatre, and most recently founded SaSS Improv in Sheffield. He has performed solo as a one man improvised musical, performed game style improv and genre improv with The Hang in Newcastle, and performed/directed Living. Dying. Dead – a unique improv theatre show about death.

Outside of improvisation Owen is an Intensive Care Medicine doctor with a post-graduate diploma in education. He also loves Eurovision and has made a national final in a coffee making contest.