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IMPROV COURSES IN ENGLISH
Stockholms Improvisationsteater (SIT) is the largest and oldest improv theatre in the Nordics. This year we celebrate our 32-year anniversary!
Our theatre is located in central Stockholm, between Odenplan and St. Eriksplan.
The theatre offers over 50 different courses every year, with a total of approx. 900 student spaces.
SPRING SEMESTER 2025
FREE TRY-OUT Improv session!
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
DUO/TRIO - make a show
WORKSHOPS
Characters within and beyond - with Bala Viswanathan
A 3 hour introduction to:
Characters within and beyond
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Free try-out Improv
Are you interested in improv but am unsure if it's right for you? Then come to one of our drop-ins! During one hour, you get to try out some basic improv games in a safe and fun environment. We may not be able to guarantee that improv is right for you, but we guarantee that you will have a fun one-hour, with lots of laughter. Welcome!
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Course no: 2500-10
Name: Free try-out Improv
Occasions: 1
Date: 2025-02-25
Weekday: Tuesday
Time: 19.30-20.30
Price: 0 SEK
VEnue: Stockholms Improvisationsteaters' , "Studion"
Address: it is located betreen Sigtunagatan 12 and Sigtunagatan 14

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Improv in English Level 1
In a level 1 course we, through play, introduce the basics of improvisational theatre. Different games and exercises are used as we work on areas such as imagination, spontaneity and teamwork. This is an excellent course if you want to become more confident when speaking in public, want to develop your imagination and creativity, or just want to have a lot of fun once a week.
Prerequisite:
No prior experience required..
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Course no: 2525
Name: Improv in English Level 1 - short course
Occasions: 5
Date: 2025-03-06 - 2025-04-03
Weekday: Thursday
Time: 17.30 - 19.30
Teacher: Åsa Dahlgren
Price: 1795 SEK
Venue: Tage Granit
Address: Crafoordsväg 14 in Vasastan

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Course no: 2524
Name: Improv in English Level 1
Occasions: 10
Date: 2025-03-03 - 2025-05-19
Weekday: Monday
Time: 19.40-21.40
Teacher: Stefan Andersson
Price: 3395 SEK
Venue: Tage Granit
Address: Crafoordsväg 14 in Vasastan

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In level 2, we continue our work with the improvisers eight fundamental skills. We will use different techniques to create exciting scenes and develop a range of characters. More time is also given to reflect on the different skills and on the scene work.
The course includes a rookie show, offering a first meeting with the audience.
Prerequisite:
At least one level 1 course or equivalent.
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Course no: 2527
Name: Improv in English Level 2
Occasions: 10
Date: 2025-03-05 - 2025-05-21
Holidays: Feb 26, April 16, April 30
Weekday: Wednesday
Time: 17.30 - 19.30
Teacher: Pau Drzastwa
Price: 3695 SEK
Premises: Stockholms Improvisationsteater's "Annexet"
Address: it is located between Sigtunagatan 16 and Sigtunagatan 18
Fully booked.
Please emial to be put on the reserve list
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In this Level 3 course, we work on creating longer scenes that together create one connected story. Through deepening our knowledge of the eight fundamental improv skills and continuing to practice them, we develop the ability to better build upon each other's scenes and characters. More time is also given to reflect on the different skills and on the scene work.
The course includes a rookie show, offering a first meeting with the audience.
Prerequisite:
Level 1and at least one Level 2 courses in Stockholms Improvisationsteater or equivalent
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Course no: 2528
Name: Improv in English Level 3
Occasions: 10
Date: 2025-01-22 - 2025-04-02
Weekday: Wednesday
Time: 19.40 - 21.40
Teacher: Viktor Öberg
Price: 3895 SEK
Venue: Tage Granit
Address: Crafoordsväg 14 in Vasastan
FULLY BOOKED
Pleae email to be put on the reserve list
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Characters within and beyond
-improvising with the system of Navarasas
Welcome to this exciting weekend workshop introducing artist, teacher and improviser Bala Viswanathan from Bengaluru, India.
Mad, sad, glad and afraid - this is how we generally characterize everyday emotions. This is limited and skewed towards "negative" emotions. And there has to be more positive emotions out there, right?
Bring a whole new array of characters to life on stage.
What would it be like to embody emotions like Heroism or Wonder or Peace or Compassion? Learn the ancient Indian system of Navarasas (Nava - 9; rasas - emotions) as formalized by the sage Bharata.
About Bala: Balasree Viswanathan is a South Indian artist and improviser based in Bengaluru, India. Her teaching and performing practice is informed by her traditional Indian arts training, Indian mythology, deep meditation practice, and keen interest in the human psyche creating a distinct cultural blend.
With experience teaching and performing across the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Bala offers a perspective that combines high-energy exploration with thoughtful reflection. Her workshops encourage improvisers to delve into their creative depths while considering their cultural backgrounds.
Her approach, which includes meditative techniques, helps improvisers of all levels navzigate vulnerability and spontaneity. She encourages students to challenge themselves and develop their unique voices by fostering a supportive environment.
Registration:
If you are interested in this workshop, please email your expression of interest and tell us something about your history of improv. The theatre will assemble the group.
Course no: 2549
Course name: Characters within and beyond (full description PDF)
Teacher:
Bala Viswanathan
Occasions: 2 + work in progress show
Date: 2025-04-12 - 2025-04-13
Weekday: Saturday - Sunday
Time: Saturday 10.00-16.00, Sunday11:00 – 17:00, show 18.00
Price: 3295 SEK
Premises: Stockholms Improvisationsteater
Address: Sigtunagatan 12
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A 3 hour introduction to:
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haracters within and beyond -improvising with the system of Navarasas
Welcome to this exciting workshop introducing artist, teacher and improviser Bala Viswanathan from Bengaluru, India.
Mad, sad, glad and afraid - this is how we generally characterize everyday emotions. This is limited and skewed towards "negative" emotions. And there has to be more positive emotions out there, right?
Bring a whole new array of characters to life on stage.
What would it be like to embody emotions like Heroism or Wonder or Peace or Compassion? Meet this ancient Indian system of Navarasas (Nava - 9; rasas - emotions) as formalized by the sage Bharata.
About Bala: Balasree Viswanathan is a South Indian artist and improviser based in Bengaluru, India. Her teaching and performing practice is informed by her traditional Indian arts training, Indian mythology, deep meditation practice, and keen interest in the human psyche creating a distinct cultural blend.
With experience teaching and performing across the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Bala offers a perspective that combines high-energy exploration with thoughtful reflection. Her workshops encourage improvisers to delve into their creative depths while considering their cultural backgrounds.
Her approach, which includes meditative techniques, helps improvisers of all levels navzigate vulnerability and spontaneity. She encourages students to challenge themselves and develop their unique voices by fostering a supportive environment.
Prerequisite:
All levels of improv experience
Course no: 2550
Course name: Characters within and beyond
(full description PDF)
Teacher:
Bala Viswanathan
Occasions: 1
Date: 2025-04-10
Weekday: Thursday
Time: 18.00-21.00
Price: 795 SEK
Venue: Stockholms Improvisationsteater's "Studion"
Address: it is located between Sigtunagatan 12 and
igtunagatan 14
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DUO/TRIO - make a show
This course is aimed at you who are an experienced improviser and now want to take the next step in your development. We recommend that you have taken an improvisation course for at least 5 semesters at Stockholms Improvisationsteater or equivalent.
Realize your idea of your improv show
I den här exklusiva kursen får du möjlighet att under professionell ledning jobba fram en föreställning tillsammans med en eller två improkompisar som du trivs på scenen med .. Här kan du förverkliga dina egna föreställningsidéer och spela upp inför publik.
Challenge yourself!
A strong personal drive and commitment is required to make maximum use of the possibilities of this course. It is also a real challenge for your character work, storytelling, stage presentation and your stage presence.
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The goal of the course is two performances to be played in the fall semester 2024 or winter/spring 2025. You will be responsible for one act.
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The director is one of those who work full-time at the theatre, Per Gottfredsson, Janne Berg and Caroline Falk
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You book the 6 occasions with your director, day, time and venue
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Course info
Practice sessions: 6 x 2 hours with a director
Pass 1: For the first session, you bring a performance idea or you develop it with your director.
Performances: 2
Day and time: as agreed with the director
Price for DUO: SEK 5895/person
Price for TRIO: SEK 5295/person
Expression of interest
Please send in a notification of interest to per@impro.a.se where you tell us about yourselves, your impro background and whether you already have an artistic idea for a performance.
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Angelica Conradi Regnell
Angelica loves meeting other people and seeing them develop. She has been improvising since 2009.For her, improv is a place where everything is possible and where it is allowed to fail. The most important thing for Angelica as an educator is that everyone should feel safe and have fun.
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Caroline Falk
Caroline works full time at Stockholms Improvisationsteater. She has been working as a music teacher for many years, sings in Tensta Gospel Choir and loves to teach improvised singing
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Cynthia Morissette
Cynthia has been improvising since birth. She discovered how to do it in a more organized fashion in a university basement in Boston. Since then, she has been doing so and teaching it in some fashion for over 20 years. She enjoys seeing people discover improv in their own basement – an actual basement (the most common space one can find people doing improv around the world) or a metaphorical one. Come let loose and rediscover the joy of play where rules are negotiable, and points don't matter.
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Dominika Dobielewska
Dominika discovered improv after a longer break from theatre projects, and it was love at first sight. On stage, she likes to unveil the drama and comedy of everyday life, preferably with an experimental twist or a song. Dominika focuses on flexibility and attentivness, with a good balance of serious and silly..
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Gustaf Blix,
musician
Gustaf är musiker med över 15 års erfarenhet inom flera olika genrer på flera olika instrument, och har dessutom en kandidat i klassisk komposition. Han är också ibland med som skådespelare under improvisationsföreställiningar. English Gustaf is a musician with over 15 years of experience across multiple genres on muliple instruments, and holds a Bachelor of Music in Classical Composition. In addition, he sometimes also joins as an actor during improv shows.
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Eva Löfgren
Eva is an experienced leader and improviser who has led courses in improvisation theatre at different levels for many years. In her leadership, she focuses on creating a well-functioning group that has fun together. Eva is keen to adapt leadership to what the unique group will achieve together. She likes to work to find the space for audience feelings and fantasies, the complexity of characters and their relationships, as well as music and movement.
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Jeff Graham
Jeff got bitten by the improv bug when a stranger on the streets of London approached him asking for directions to what turned out to be an improv drop-in. Following this chance discovery his improv addiction led him to train and perform with theatres in London, New York and now Stockholm. Passionate about improv and a self-confessed comedy geek, Jeff is committed to spreading the joy and freedom of improvised performance in his teaching.
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Linda Gustafsson
Linda is an actor, improviser, and pedagogue who over the years has taught many highly appreciated courses at Stockholms Improvisationsteater. She has also played a lot of impro and directed. She's now back at our theatre after a couple of years at Västerbottensteatern in Skellefteå and is longing to teach again! Linda is a perceptive and empathic teacher with a broad knowledge in improvised theatre. Focus is on creating safe groups where the members together can achieve greatness – and of course have a ton on fun together! When it comes to longform her approach is to create engaging characters in grounded scenes and stitching it together to a captivating story!
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Matild Swahn
Matilda started with improvisational theater to become more spontaneous and dare to make mistakes. It has been twelve years and now she is an experienced and very popular course leader who places great emphasis on playfulness, curiosity and creating a safe and permissive group feeling far removed from performance requirements.
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Michael Håkansson
Michael Håkansson stumbled on improv around 13 years ago, and he has been falling deeper ever since. As a teacher Michael will always try to find a balance between complete silliness and drama, between total unbridled freedom and feedback, and between playing as a group and the individual expression. Michael has been teaching courses at all levels at SIT and will get up on stage as soon as there is an opportunity. Currently in the shows Hotpot and Smak at Stockholms Improvisationsteater and with the groups Köttet and Plausible Productions.
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Pau Drzastwa
Pau Drzastwa - loves to combine everything with music and see how it works. Pau is an improviser, producer, theatrologist, graduate of the Improv School in Warsaw and iO West in LA. In Warsaw, she was a member of the Experimental Choir Gre Badanie and an actress of the theater/music project The Chorus of Women, based on the concept of an ancient Greek chorus.
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Per Gotftredsson
Per is the artistic director at, and one of three owners of, Stockholms Improvisationsteater. Per has more than 25 years experience as an improvisor, teacher and director, both in Sweden and internationally.
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Stefan Andersson
Stefan is an improviser, teacher, and artistic director who started improvising over 17 years ago and has international improv experience from ten different countries. His philosophy is that learning improv should be fun and that the best way to learn the art form is through lots of joy and laughter. Seeing students grow and evolve beyond what they at first thought was possible is what drives him and what he loves the most about teaching.
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