Register now as a visiting improviser

What you get:

Included 5-nights accommodation at one of the most convenient, comfortable, beautiful locations right in the heart of it all.
Free entry to ALL improv shows.
Free entry to ALL evening events
Free entry to lots of fun activities we have arranged for you during the day, apart from the workshops.
Access to mixer team workshops that you can sign up for and perform on stage (SOLD OUT NOW, SORRY!).
20% discount for ALL workshops. (You will be sent a promo code immediately after registration.)
Discounts to many shops and restaurants around the city.
A Mt. Olymprov bag 'o' swag!
A Mt. Olymprov T-shirt. (Please enter your size in the comments when booking.)
A mobile phone SIM card to easily and affordably communicate with all other improvisers here.
A Mt. Olymprov 2019 souvenir.
Total value of €400 for less than half the price!
Treat yourself to an All-Improv All-Greek holiday this summer!

Take all the benefits of the regular Visiting Improviser Pass and upgrade them.
You'll have a 3-bed private room or studio to share with just 2 more people. Located at one of the best spots in Athens.
What you get:

Included 5-nights accommodation at one of the most convenient, comfortable, beautiful locations in Athens, in a 3- bed private studio.
Free entry to ALL improv shows.
Free entry to ALL evening events
Free entry to lots of fun activities we have arranged for you during the day, apart from the workshops.
Access to mixer team workshops that you can sign up for and perform on stage (ALL FULL - Waiting list available).
20% discount for ALL workshops.
Discounts to many shops and restaurants around the city.
A Mt. Olymprov bag 'o' swag!
A Mt. Olymprov T-shirt.
A mobile phone SIM card to easily and affordably communicate with all other improvisers here.
A Mt. Olymprov 2019 souvenir.

Treat yourself to an All-Improv All-Greek holiday this summer!

I know where to put myself on stage when there are others? And when I'm alone? The stage is a space to be occupied with the physical and this cannot be done random. I have to know where to stand, how to relate my "area" with that of others and how to relate my "area" with the rest of the stage. We'll figure out how to move, how to "be there" without covering the other actors, when it's my turn. then we will try to know and explore the space where there are my characters and my emotions, to live without parasitize, to exist without overpowering trying to figure out which is the focus of improvisation because “where I stay” tells a story.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience level recommended: Beginner & Intermediate

A truly comic scene that really resonates and allows for laughs to build throughout a scene takes an understanding of comedic structures. Keeping scenes funny and the audience interested means improvising with structure and concepts towards a comedic story. Kevin Scott will introduce you to the comic devices that will make you go beyond your usual comic premises towards hilarious scenes and continuous comedy. The goal of the course is to provide a common language for improvisers to reference off stage and to follow while playing onstage. Going beyond funny characters and dialog towards funny scenes. Learning these comic devices will help improvisers go beyond the usual comic premises, sometimes referred to as the 'game' of the scene or the 'comic engine'. This workshop introduces players comic devices they may not have recognized before and gives a name to ones they may already know.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am - 2pm.

Suitable for intermediate and advanced improvisers.

Action Improv takes tools from various techniques and styles (including clowning, Comedia Dell'arte, Viewpoints and more) to energize and activate the players and the space. The workshop focuses on using physical exploration to inspire scenes and character choices. Participants will also explore using Viola Spolin based mirror and transformation techniques within a long-form in the style often referred to as Organic Improv.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience level recommended: Intermediate & Advanced

The Invocation was one of the original (if not THE original) techniques used to begin a Harold. When it is done right, it is the most amazing and fruitful way to begin a Harold (or any number of Longform Improvisations), but when it is done poorly, it is the most horrific way to begin a longform and make an audience hate the group who performs it, and maybe even make the audience hate all of improvisation for the rest of time. In this workshop Joe Bill will show people how to do a kick ass invocation and then pull great scenes out of it and then hopefully feel inspired to take these techniques back home and play with them with their home groups.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am - 2pm.

Suitable for all levels of experience.

This workshop will help participants get present immediately in Improv Scenes. Joe will show you how to have your inner engineer and inner jazz musician come into balance as you’re starting scenes. This includes emotional and strategic presence, the mindset of readiness, playfulness, awareness of interpersonal vs. circumstantial dialogue and tracking the context through patterns that you establish right from the start. In Improvisation the ending is often in the beginning, let me help you start from a place of grounding and strength. Everyone will walk out of this workshop with at least a couple of new tools that they can begin to employ immediately.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience level recommended: Beginner & Advanced.

As performers, we don't necessarily know the ins and outs of the theatre technology going on around us.

Step behind the lighting desk to see the show from a different point of view. Discover how lighting can affect the mood and tone of your show, and add depth to your stage picture. Then, play on the stage and experiment with how you can interact with the lights as a performer. Through discussion, theory and practice, we will explore theatricality, color theory, and directionality, and light and shadow.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Suitable for all experience levels.

What do you seek in a scene, as an audience? All of us will give different answers, but they sum up to one word, identification. By using emotions on stage the audience relates to your scenes and character. Feelings are something all humanity has in common. In this workshop you will use your feelings to connect with each other and with the audience, you will challenge your partners and yourself emotionally and finally, make people care!

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am - 2pm.

Experience level recommended: Intermediate

Have you ever had that feeling that when you express your emotions on stage your voice doesn’t always seem to be in the same team as you? Is your throat often dry and makes it difficult for the audience to hear you from the stage? Have you ever felt that although your characters may vary, they always speak in the same way and you cannot do anything about it however hard you try? Does your throat often hurt and you really don’t know how to control your breath and how not to pant while acting and improvising? If you answered YES to at least two of the questions above… this workshop is for you!
It will give you practical hints how to:
– work with your voice,
– make your voice stronger,
– be heard by everyone in the audience (even in the back seats),
– change your voice while creating different characters,
– identify and use bright and dark sides of your voice.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am - 2pm.

Suitable for all levels of experience.

This workshop is a survey of methods to turn the corner on a scene that has stalled out and is struggling to progress.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Suitable for all levels of experience.

This workshop allows participants to explore characters that are conventionally thought of as perverts, monsters and villains. Through discussion, movement and emotional exercises, we’ll question how we define monsters, look at how how and why they can contribute to a story, and delve
into how to go about drawing these characters from the shadows of our psyche to bring them to the stage.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am - 2pm.

Experience level required: Intermediate & Advanced

Our brain is an amazing story-making machine, but sometimes it makes us feel too heady and it becomes our own trap, our only barrier. During this workshop, through guided exercises, we will unplug that brain to allow us to explore what our body language, intentions, emotions and imagination can suggest. Step by step we'll say goodbye to rational and let absurd and stupid guide us to new playgrounds where new amazing stories emerge.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience Level expected: Intermediate / Advanced

Our brain is an amazing story-making machine, but sometimes it makes us feel too heady and it becomes our own trap, our only barrier. During this workshop, through guided exercises, we will unplug that brain to allow us to explore what our body language, intentions, emotions and imagination can suggest. Step by step we'll say goodbye to rational and let absurd and stupid guide us to new playgrounds where new amazing stories emerge.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am-2pm. It is the exact same workshop held in the afternoon slot, but added a second time due to high demand.

Experience Level expected: Intermediate / Advanced

Supporting your teammate can come in a lot of different shapes and forms. What if one of them was by making their life (or your own) hell on earth? Learn how to get super-inspired and have new levels of fun on stage through torturing yourself or your partner. Learn how to be playful about it and you'll have the audience having the time of their lives!

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience level recommended: Intermediate & Advanced

How can you make the audience feel something? How do you make every scene feel like a breath of fresh air? Is there an easy way of knowing what is needed without getting into your head?

Meet the dimensions. An approach to improv where every player gets one area to focus on. These are focus points like staging, volume and tempo.

Especially very experienced players can benefit from this new approach. It encourages them to make choices they have never made.

The dimensions can be used in existing formats (especially those who seem to have lost their 'edge') or in their own format 'Welcome Change'.

This is a 6-hour workshop. It starts at 11am and ends at 6pm. One hour break is included 2pm - 3pm.

Experience level recommended: Intermediate & Advanced

In this workshop, Jill Bernard will take you through a series of exercises that inject your work with a little bit of truth and beauty. Having the ability to create improv that is honest and vulnerable adds another layer to your work, a little bit of cake underneath your frosting to take your work from light entertainment to something with resonance. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.

This is a 6-hour workshop. It starts at 11am and ends at 6pm. One hour break is included 2pm - 3pm.

Experience level recommended: Intermediate & Advanced.

Want to tell realistic and engaging love stories on stage? Want
to play scenes apart from the meet-cute and the break-up?
Drawing on techniques developed by Heather and Jules for Ten
Thousand Million Love Stories and inspired by Rama Nicholas
of Impro Melbourne, this workshop will look at how you can
create onstage trust with our fellow players and take your
scenes to a deeply connected emotional place. During this
workshop, you will explore classic romantic situations and
also have fun with love stories in unexpected places.
This workshop involves physical contact and can be
challenging for some people. But don’t worry, all the clothes
stay on. This workshop is about emotional, not physical
intimacy.

This is a 6-hour workshop. It starts at 11am and ends at 6pm. One hour break is included 2pm - 3pm.

Suitable for all levels of experience.

Often we find ourselves witnessing scenes of theatrical improvisation lacking scenic awareness.

This workshop focuses on the importance of the character's intention and awareness, and on the concept that the text comes as a consequence. Improvisers should discover the text and don’t look for the words because it does not matter so much what you say as how you say it.

Non-verbal communication, pauses and silences and pantomime, paramount and indispensable to convey truth and credibility to a scene or a character. We will work on intentions before encountering words, on expressive silences and pauses as a basic part of acting, and on proxemics in general. We will focus on:

• intention as the heart of the text's line

• the silents as an help to let grow up a scene

This is a 6-hour workshop. It starts at 11am and ends at 6pm. One hour break is included 2pm - 3pm.

Suitable for all levels of experience.

If we kinda want to do it, the audience kinda wants to see it. Why not play passionately and with determination, while at the same time offering the audience a passionate experience? Be part of the life you are creating on stage, rather than feeling the obligation to just go along.

Many times we see improvisers on stage being flimsy, unsure of the motives for their character, ending up making choices that don’t really make sense. That is because they do not know what their character actually WANTS! That makes the character seem unnatural, making it hard for the audience (and the players) to connect.

In this workshop we work on our strongest desires in every moment, both as improvisers as well as the characters we bring to life on stage. We learn to always stand firmly on our feet, knowing what we want and how this will affect all our future choices.

This is a 3-hour workshop. This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience level recommended: Beginner & Intermediate

The improvised song workshop. You will learn how to sing to make the song sound as if it was written. We will be creating song structures together, playing with words, creating solo songs, duets, musical openings and closing numbers. The ability to sing is not required. Leave the comfort zone, then, and prove yourself more skilled than you think!

This is a 3-hour workshop. This is a 3-hour workshop, held 3pm - 6pm.

Experience level recommended: Beginner & Advanced

This workshop presents Jill Bernard's Fireball Theory and offers exercises to help you improvise faster and harder than you can judge yourself. You will learn to metaphorically hit the scene running and outrun the explosion of self-loathing and doubt like an action movie hero outruns a fireball thus defying the laws of physics. Please wear closed toe shoes to this workshop.

This is a 3-hour workshop, held 11am - 2pm.

Experience level recommended: Beginners & Intermediate