The Brisbane Improv Festival is excited to be hosting 22 Improvisation Workshops as part of the 2022 Festival with facilitators from all over Australia and New Zealand.

Improvised Monologues
Facilitated by Lindsay Drummond (Improv Hub)

Improvised Monologues will stretch your improv skills to new levels. Gain more confidence to trust your own ideas and supercharge your self-expression! This 3 hr workshop is a quick dive into the art of doing improvised monologues. Normally in improv you have your partner or ensemble to get inspiration from but what happens when the buck stops with you!? Discover tools, tricks and skills to make improvising on your own easy, fun and interesting! Find out fool proof ways to start, continue and end awesome improvised monologues. Learn how to really ‘have your own back’! Challenge yourself with improvised monologues and it will make you an even better improviser, performer and creator!

In this workshop you will get 4 easy monologue formats, time to practice and constructive feedback in a safe environment.

Give yourself the greatest improv gift- confidence in yourself.

About Lindsay

Lindsay is a self confessed 'Improv evangelist' and truly believes if everyone in the world did just one Improv class, the world (maybe even the universe) would be a better place! Founder of Improv Hub, Lindsay was one of the first in the world to start teaching improv online. As a pioneer of online improv Lindsay teaches games, tools and exercises especially for an online environment. On special occasions Lindsay also teaches a unique selection of ‘in real life’ classes at theatres and festivals locally and overseas. Lindsay has a Bachelor of Social Science (Behavioural Studies), a Graduate Certificate in Creative and Professional Practice and is a Master Practitioner of NLP. Lindsay has also been a professional musician and entertainer for over 20 years. Lindsay has trained in Improv with some of the best and most prominent improvisers in the world such as Jill Bernard, David Razowsky, Patti Stiles, Heather Urquhart, Joe Bill, Carlo Richie, Liz Peters, Stephen Thornton, Armando Diaz and Andrew Eninger. Lindsay is the creator of 'Drummond and Friend', a popular online YouTube show where she improvises scenes with other great improvisers from all around the world. Lindsay also hosts the ‘Masters of Improv’ and Banterpreneurs podcasts.

The Brisbane Improv Festival will be following all current COVID-19 safety guidelines and will also require all workshop participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for the wellbeing of all participants and facilitators - please note this is a extra requirement mandated by the Festival.