Musical Improv Level One

Musical Improv Level One with Greg Moss and Michael Lutton

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Class Description


Learn how to put your thoughts and emotions into song and take your improv scenes to the next level! In this 8-week course you will learn the song structures you need to make up musicals on the spot. No need to be an experienced singer! Through exercises in group dynamic, support, and movement, you will learn how to turn every song you improvise into a full-blown musical number. 8 weeks of classes followed by a class performance.

Instructor: Greg Moss

Greg is a writer, performer, and accompanist from New York City. He holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As a playwright and composer/lyricist, his works include Tabletop Cabaret: Hedgepig Races (The Brick), A Hundred Thousand Places (NYU), The Dowager Duchess Explains It All For You (24 Hour Plays), and The Great Cat Massacre (St. Luke’s Theatre, off-Broadway), among many others. He contributed music to the film birth/rebirth, which was nominated for multiple Independent Spirit Awards. He has studied improv at Upright Citizens Brigade and the Magnet Theater with the likes of Jason Mantzoukas, Tara Copeland, Jean Villepique, and Michael Lutton. He loves music and improv, but not half as much as he loves his wife, Danielle.

Instructor: Michael Lutton

Michael has been a Magnet instructor since 2011. He has travelled the country performing in festivals and has taught workshops in Boston and Washington, DC. He has also taught several corporate and team-building workshops.

He began improvising in 2006, and was lucky to train with teachers such as Armando Diaz, Rachel Hamilton, James Eason, and Tara Copeland.

Michael currently teaches Level 1, Level 4: Monoscene, Musical Improv Level 1 and Musical Improv Level 3.

In addition to his teaching duties, Michael is the Director of the Musical Improv Program at the Magnet.

Full Session Schedule


Session Schedule*

  1. Jun 18, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  2. Jun 25, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  3. Jul 2, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  4. Jul 9, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  5. Jul 16, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  6. Jul 23, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  7. Jul 30, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
  8. Aug 6, 2025, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
    (152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)

Show Schedule*

  1. Aug 10, 2025, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  2. *scheduling subject to change