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Improv Level 1-2-3 Grad Show - Sydney Search for: Recent Posts The Last Laugh? When Will In-Person Classes Resume? Thursday Nights: All in and All out State of Play 2019 You Shaved My Legs! Eight Weeks with Laugh Masters Academy Recent CommentsWhat is improv comedy & theatre? - The Australian Improv Comedy Festival on What [...]

Night Shift at the Factory - Monthly Improv & Sketch Comedy Search for: Recent Posts The Last Laugh? When Will In-Person Classes Resume? Thursday Nights: All in and All out State of Play 2019 You Shaved My Legs! Eight Weeks with Laugh Masters Academy Recent CommentsWhat is improv comedy & theatre? - The Australian Improv [...]

Vulnerability Sucks* Thanks to a timely tweet back in February, I took a risk and joined my first ever improv class at Laugh Masters Academy. Having only 20 minutes to run to the theatre, I came in late, sweaty and out of breath. In front of me were 12 friendly strangers waiting to be introduced [...]

“On The Cusp, Off The Cuff,” - An Improv Comedy Documentary Via: The Comics Comic Who decides to pursue a life or career in improv comedy, what are their motivations, and what is the reality of that life and career, really? Especially if you're living and working in New York City. A few years ago, [...]

What Vanilla Ice Didn’t Tell You About Agile/Lean Methods I have been working in the IT Industry for over a decade and in that time we have seen massive changes in how people are approaching how work gets done, people at all levels are collaborating in entirely new ways. From processes and practices thought up [...]

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Improv Class It's the start of a new term, and that means you're about to be walking into a room ready for some make-'em-ups with a batch of new (and some known) faces. Here's some tips for getting the most out of your class, whether it's the [...]

UCB Founders Charlie Rose Interview As you may already know the DCM (Del Close Marathon) is happening at UCB in New York City right now (late June, 2016) and the four famous founders of UCB were recently interviewed on Charlie Rose. It's a fantastic piece touching on the origin story of improv and UCB, the [...]

Joe Bill is Bringing The Power to LMA! Mr. Joe Bill is will be at LMA Sydney for one night only to run his world famous Power Improv Scenes Workshop The focus of this workshop is how to play improv Scenes in any context, but specifically Long Form and Narrative, from a place of strength. We’ll play [...]

We had an awesome “Hangin’ with Harold” intensive workshop with Kristin Hensley (UCB, i.O., Second City, WestSide Comedy Theater). These are the notes from the class which will be of value to anyone currently performing – or learning to perform – Harolds at LMA or elsewhere.

Improvoir: It Happened and It Was Good. These here photos are proof last night actually happened. It was a dream come true and an amazing team effort. Truly a special moment in LMA history and what a fantastic moment it was. Thank you to all the LMA Teachers and Performers for being a part of [...]

Use Your Words We'd love to hear from you. Write about your favourite show, most recent class, training you did overseas, how improv has helped/changed you, Top Tips you'd like to share, pet peeves... whatever. Pitch us your ideas and chances are we'll say "Yes, and..."

Chicago's loss is Austraia's gain! Laugh-Masters Academy is super excited to announce the addition of Sophie Long to our roster of Australian based Instructors. Sophie is an Performer, Writer, Director, Teacher and Coach in stand-up, sketch comedy, musical comedy, and storytelling. She has recently returned home from Chicago - the "birthplace of improv comedy" - [...]

The "Gold Coin" Improv & Stand-Up Comedy Show #2 Hoo-doggie! We are super excited to announce LMA's second Gold Coin Comedy Night, an evening of "Nearly Free" comedy featuring a fantastic lineup of Australia's rising improv and stand-up All-Stars. This special evening will start off with shows performed by LMA's current  Level 1 and Level 2 Improv grads, followed by a comedy set starring current [...]

The "Gold Coin" Improv & Stand-Up Comedy Show Hoo-doggie! We are super excited to announce the inaugural Gold Coin Comedy Night, an evening of "Nearly Free" comedy featuring a fantastic lineup of Australia's rising improv and stand-up All-Stars. This special evening will start off with a graduation show by LMA's current  Level 1 Improv class, followed by comedy sets from current LMA Instructors and advanced [...]

Student Blog: Improv is Dope - How I Stepped on Stage It all started.. About six months ago, I signed up for LMA on a whim - I had no idea what I was getting myself in for, I joined up on some vague advice about how it would improve my conversation and social skills. Since [...]