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Musical Improv Level 4: Cinema Studies with Nikita Burdein and James Navan

Apply Class Days: Sundays 1pm - 3pm (appications due 9/21, notifications 9/28)
Begins: Oct 5, 2025
Ends: Nov 23, 2025
Price: $399

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

This course is for people who like movies but also love Musical Improv! Students will build on their previous training where they learned to improvise musicals and build a narrative. This advanced training will focus on performing more cinematic, genre-driven musicals. Inspired by the Movie form, students will work within Hollywood genres to create characters, plot points, special effects and stage pictures. And then for the best part -- this class will culminate in a 4-week run of class shows.

Applications due: noon on Sun (9/21)
Notification date: Sun (9/28)

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, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oct 12, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oct 19, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oct 26, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 2, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 9, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 16, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 23, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)

Show Schedule*

Nov 21, 2025, 6:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Nov 24, 2025, 6:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Dec 5, 2025, 6:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Dec 12, 2025, 6:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}