Each summer, we’re excited to offer week-long intensives in acting, improv, and stand-up! Spend a day in a comedy crash course or brush up your skills. Study from all of The PIT’s Award-Winning Improv Curriculum, as well as our Acting, Stand-Up, and Elective Programming!
Classes will be held Monday through Friday from 9am-4pm OR 11am-5:30pm with a break for lunch each day.
Our 2025 Schedule:
Level 1 Acting (11 AM-2 PM): Designed for actors with a solid foundation in acting basics who are eager to advance quickly, our intensive format ensures you’ll receive individualized training tailored to your unique strengths and areas for growth. The class will focus on scene work, imaginative exercises, improvised scenes, specialized character work, storytelling and various on-camera exercises (utilizing the iPhone). Whether you’re preparing for upcoming auditions, aiming to deepen your understanding of the craft, or seeking to refine your skills for professional work, this class will provide the guidance you need.
Business of Acting (2:30-5 PM): This class is for anyone who wishes to learn the strategies to present themselves to the industry as a professional actor, and the methods of reaching out and attracting an acting agent. In addition, we’ll also cover techniques to potentially secure a manager and go over the various ways you can build relationships with casting directors.
Improv to Character Elective (2:30-5 PM): This class will dive into how you can create characters using improv exercises to help pitch, write, and perform solo performance character pieces. Whether you are an improviser, writer or performer this workshop will add to your tool belt of using character acting to enhance your artistry in your work.
In this class you will use scene work and group exercises to explore the joy of improvisation, be more confident, trusting and graceful on stage. Focus on positive choices to initiate scenes, real-life and character monologues grounded in TRUTH! Students will perform The Armando for their grad show, giving improvised monologues and performing scenes based off said monologues!
In Level 2, you will continue to focus on strong listening and reacting without interrupting your scene partner. Making sure the beginning of your sentence doesn’t get in the way of the middle of theirs. You will reinforce saying “Yes, and…!” Until you have to say “no thank you”. You’ll also get a comprehensive understanding on how to edit your scenes as an improviser, in partnered and group scenes.
In Level 3, you’ll learn how to “heighten and tighten” a scene organically glued in reality to create “win-win” fun scenes to play to entertain yourself and others while “treating your partner like a genius”. You’ll also be introduced to the most widely-known Improv show format–The Harold!
Level 4 Improv (9 AM-12 PM): You will continue working on The Harold, explore further means of editing, and deepen your knowledge and comfortability of the Game of the scene. You’ll also begin to be informed on other variations of form/game for Improv.
Level 1 Stand-Up (1-4 PM): You’ll get disciplined writing tools, informative personal feedback and important advice as you begin your stand up comedy journey. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced in other walks of comedy life, this class is for you. Class culminates in a stand-up show, where students present their first 3 minutes of material.
PRICING BREAKDOWN:
1-Week (Any SINGLE FULL WEEK): $569
1-Week Acting ONLY Intensive: $375
1-Week Stand Up Bootcamp: $299
3-Day Intensive (Character Creation): $199
2-Day Intensive (Business of Acting): $99
Bundle and Save!
5-Week (ALL CLASSES) Bundle: $1999
4-Week ALL IMPROV Bundle (7/8-8/2): $999
