In-Person Improv Level One

In-Person Improv Level One with Armando Diaz and Charlie Nicholson

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Check below to see the full schedule for each session, see if your class skips a week for a holiday, and check out the date and time of your class show(s).

Class Description


From day one you will jump into a series of fun warm ups and games designed to ease you into improv. Before you know it you will be playing scenes and learning how to heighten and explore your ideas. As the class progresses you will learn how to do 2 person scenes, group scenes, group games and how to deliver simple monologues. The class is all about fun and support. Whether you are a beginner who has never improvised or someone who has improv experience, you will learn strong fundamentals that will build your confidence, improve speaking skills and foster spontaneity

All students will be asked to show proof of vaccination prior to the first session in order to participate in this class

Instructor: Armando Diaz

Armando is widely regarded as one of the best improv teachers in New York City and beyond. His list of teaching credits is a long one: the ImprovOlympic Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, NYU and Michael Howard Studios. He has trained dozens of actors who have performed or written for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mad TV, and The Daily Show.

A Chicago native, Armando studied improv under Del Close at the ImprovOlympic, Mick Napier at the Annoyance, and graduated from the Second City Conservatory. He performed in and helped create one of the most popular improvised longforms in Chicago, "The Armando Diaz Experience...." For the last decade, "the Armando" has been performed weekly in Chicago, and is now taught and performed in many other cities including Los Angeles and New York.

In addition to writing and producing short films, Armando wrote sketches for the show Upright Citizens Brigade on Comedy Central, and has performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Instructor: Charlie Nicholson

Charlie was born during the Blizzard of 1989 in the small town of Pomfret, Connecticut. He loves Star Wars, puzzles, tomatoes, and cats. If you want to impress him, mention Ray Bradbury in passing. A proud Story Pirate, he's an alumnus of Vassar College and he works as Education Fellow at the New York Public Library! In addition to teaching and performing at the Magnet, Charlie runs Improv-for-Beginners and Improv-for-Actors workshops in high schools, libraries, film academies, bachelorre parties, graduation ceremonies, weddings, haunted houses, and baby showers all across the 5 boroughs and beyond.

Charlie has studied comedy at the Magnet Theater and UCB, but he really got cookin' with THE LIMIT back at Vassar in the early '10s. He spends his leisure time drawing, sleeping, and giving directions.

New York acting highlights include; The Ginsberg Project (Alchemical Theater), Height of Success (Secret Theater), Ambrosia (Manhattan Rep), The Disastrous Tale of Vera and Linus (Kipuka Theater/Salem Art Works) and Drag/Stein (Target Margin/Bushwick Starr).

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Full Session Schedule


Session Schedule*

  1. Apr 12, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  2. Apr 19, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  3. Apr 26, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  4. May 3, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  5. May 10, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  6. May 17, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  7. May 24, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  8. May 31, 2022, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)

Show Schedule*

  1. Jun 5, 2022, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  2. *scheduling subject to change