CURRENT CLASSES AVAILABLE:

Adult Improv Workshop

Adult Improv! All we want you to do is have fun! Fight off loneliness, find a community while dipping your toe into the joyous pool of improvisation – 0% fear, 100% fun. This is the perfect place for absolute beginners to get acquainted with the art of improvisation or those who want to tap back into why they first started doing improv somewhere else. Every week you will play in a safe and nurturing class environment with group exercises, games and scene work. Who knows? You may make a life long friend. If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to contact Jim Schilling at jschill246@gmail.com.

Beginning to Advanced actors will benefit from this class. The class will include group exercises, acting technique, scene work and monologue work.

Adult Improv Workshop (Ages 18+)
6 classes
April 16 - May 28, 2026; No class May 21
Thursdays, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Tuition: $375

LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS PER SESSION!

About the instructor

JIM SCHILLING
co-founded Music Theatre of CT in 1987 and is currently MTC’s Managing Director and Director of the School of Performing Arts.  MTC acting credits include Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..., Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Yours, Anne, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Doubt, Almost, Maine, God of Carnage, The Fantasticks,  Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The 39 Steps and most recently Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was nominated for a CT Critics Circle award for Herr Shultz in Cabaret and winner of the BroadwayWorld award for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He continues as a Blue Ribbon Panelist for the Daytime Emmy Awards, and is on the voting committee for the SAG awards, and a member of “Who’s Who in the American Theatre” from 1991-present.  Jim was also an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University (Advanced Acting, Advanced Scene Study,  Script Analysis and Directing) where he was recently nominated Best Director of a musical for his work on Godspell.