Tim Winters

In my spare time, I teach and play scenes with people who want to get into the art of Improvisational Theatre, where my aim is to build a community.

It is completely voluntary work, but incredibly rewarding.

Whole day workshop, with a focus on producing grand improvised musicals. We practiced melody, harmony, percussion. Producing subtext, idioms, and metaphorical lyrics. In this group of 12, we had the chance to split up (6 and 6) and perform a 30 minute musical, going through everything we practiced during the workshop. Incredibly rewarding, super knowledgeable teachers.

In our Production Class Premiere, we were a group of 11, who practiced the art of musical improvisation. Ranging from movement, song, percussion and formats. We produced our own show for the masses to see. During this class, we performed 3 times on stage with the format "The Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway Show". First act, setting up the characters for a musical, wacky or grounded. Second act play out the musical.

During the spring semester of 2024, we produced 4 musical shows using the format 'Spokane'. Our group performed this under the show name "Be Kind, Rewind" (as per the format inspiration). We had a bigger focus on acting, subtext, idioms, metaphors and subtlety during this class. Some abstract practice, as well.

In spring of 2025, our format was based around the every-day regular life of people, until a world-changing event occurred, effectively causing an apocalypse. First act we focused on following the "boring" parts of life, and the second act we opened up to more abstract storytelling, 20+ years in the future.

2022 to 2024.

Level 1. We focused on practicing everything from space work, characters, and short form games.

Level 2. Continuation from class 2022, with preparation for performing on-stage.

At the end of the course, we performed on stage in front of a live audience.

Level 2.5. Focus on characters and emotions, with continuation of practicing short form games.

Level 3. We began focus on long from improvisation, with formats Montage and Closed Quarters.

Level 4. Continuation of the format Montage. Improving our ability to cut scenes, streamline our character development and dig deeper into our characters and emotions.

Under the tutelage of Eva Löfgren, we focused heavily on dramatic scenes and character building. Digging deep into our emotions and sometimes having emotional outbursts on stage. Our aim was for the audience to react with more than laughter. We wanted them to gasp, aww, ooh, and maybe even shed a tear.

Adopting many different exercises to show our acting chops, our format focused on 5 characters going about one of their days (first act) where they would head toward a destination of the audiences' choosing where they would then get TRAPPED (second act), thusly producing 4 shows.