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Musical Improv Level One with Nikita Burdein and James Navan

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

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: Nikita Burdein

Born in Ukraine, raised in Chicago, and now in NYC, Nikita is an improviser, video producer, theater maker, and other multi-hyphenate (son, brother, friend, etc.)

He trained at the Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade Theater before becoming a house performer at both theaters and a teacher at the Magnet of Musical Improv. He can be seen Fridays at the Magnet Theater's Premiere: the Improvised Musical (the longest running weekly Musical Improv show in NYC!) Nikita can also be seen at the UCB Theater on Harold Night with this team, The Prophecy. He also performs regularly with Baby Wants Candy, Shamilton, and with Shitzprobe, with monthly shows all around NYC.

Instructor: James Navan

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Oct 5, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oct 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oct 19, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oct 26, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 2, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 9, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 16, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 23, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)

Show Schedule*

Nov 24, 2025, 7:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}