Overview

Urban Improv is a violence prevention program for young people that uses structured theater improvisation to teach decision making, impulse control, and values clarification. Now entering its fourteenth year, Urban Improv provides interactive workshops that challenge students to deal creatively with major issues in their lives. Through the improvisational process, Urban Improv develops the skills of problem solving, conflict resolution, cooperation, and leadership.

Urban Improv is built around a professional ensemble staffed by a director, ten actors and a musician. The team has developed a repertoire of improvisational scenes and songs that provide the formal basis for the workshops.

Founded in 1992, Urban Improv has partnered with more than sixteen Boston schools to deliver workshops, in a nine week curriculum, to students in the fourth grade through high school. In addition Urban Improv has worked with numerous schools and agencies around New England to provide workshops and assemblies programs on a wide range of issues for audiences from elementary school to adults.

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Contact us if you would like to learn more about our method, the issues we address, or to book a workshop.