Apartment Finder: Improv Classes

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Improv Classes

The Groundlings School holds new sessions every six weeks with over 300 students per session, with over 2,000 students per year going through the program. The competitive program consists of 4 levels (Basic, Intermediate, Writing Lab and Advanced). Participants must be successfully advanced from each level by the instructor. Students must pass an audition to get into Basic. Auditions are run by a Groundlings teacher and are mini versions of a first day of class. The audition is free, a group audition and is all improvisation. Auditions are held every week and can be scheduled by calling the school office. If one does pass the audition, their results are valid for one year. If a student does not pass the audition, they are allowed to audition again in six months. Students are allowed to audition a total of three times. It takes years to go through the entire program, with year and a half to two year wait-lists between levels being common. Students may be asked to repeat Basic and Intermediate, multiple times.