The Brisbane Improv Festival is excited to be hosting 22 Improvisation Workshops as part of the 2023 Festival with facilitators from all over Australia and New Zealand.

Drop The Ball: What To Hold On To And What To Let Go Workshop 

Facilitated by Jennifer O'Sullivan (Locomotive, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington NZ)

As improvisors, we're asked to juggle a whole lot of skills and points of focus at once; accepting offers, supporting our scene partners, responding to the audience, projecting our voices, being expressive with our bodies, keeping to the 'rules' of the show or genre, and so on and on. It is inevitable that as we juggle it all, balls will get dropped. Most of them are made of plastic and they bounce, but some are made of glass (or feel like they are) and dropping them makes a hell of a mess.

This workshop is about how and where to direct your focus, how to recognise which balls will bounce and which will break, and how to enjoy the mess when you drop a ball or three. A workshop for anyone who overthinks on their feet, struggles to find focus, or needs a reminder to have fun. 

About Jennifer 

Jennifer (she/her) is an improvisor, director and creative producer in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. With an MFA in Creative Practice from Victoria University, she is the co-founder and director of Locomotive, the creative lead for Kickin’ Rad Productions, and is the former director of the New Zealand Improv Festival. The last decade and a half has seen her performing, producing and teaching in Wellington and around NZ and Australia, and in 2016 she created Late Night Knife Fight at BATS Theatre to encourage innovation and experimentation in improv forms (and to have a good time). When she's not working on cool improv and theatre projects, she's hanging out with her pets and her kid and making sure no one eats too much grass.

In addition to his work in the improv community, Matias also works as a Team Lead for Serato, a world-leading DJ software/hardware company, bringing his unique perspective to the tech industry.