In Level 201 you will begin to work with your fellow improvisers and discover the joy of creating scenes together. You’ll learn how to construct honest and believable characters, environments, and scene flows. You’ll experiment with focus and listening. Most of all, you’ll have FUN!

This class skips two weeks to accommodate the holiday season. There is no class on 12/25 and 1/1.

Prerequisite:  A Completed 101 or Education Director Approval

Student Showcase: 2/4 more details to come

Instructor: Todd Couch is a writer, performer, instructor, coach, one-liner co-champion, game master, dad, and nap enthusiast living in Denver, CO.  He was in the first ever class to graduate from RISE Comedy formally known as Voodoo Comedy Playhouse over ten years ago.  He also studied improv and sketch at the Magnet Theater in New York City, Pack Theater in Los Angeles, and Second City in Chicago.

Todd Couch is a founding member of the improv team “Barkley” which has been running the weekly over the past seven years.  Todd Couch has performed with hundreds of jamsters and has learned the hard lessons of letting go of your ego and fully committed support.  Todd Couch also performs with “OVER elvis,” “Makeshift Shakespeare,” “Father Figures,” and is a cast member in Nick Armstrong’s latest sketch show, “A Notable Unnotable.”  A lifelong comedy nerd, Todd spent his mid-life crisis learning everything he could about comedy, stand up, improv and sketch. Todd is now an instructor at RISE Comedy to fund research into a time machine to go back and teach everything he knows about comedy to his 17 year old self. Until that time he is passing that knowledge and encouragement on to you with his supportive dad energy.  The RISE Comedy green room sofa is named after him, the Todd Couch Couch.  They got your back.

“This guy looks like a lumberjack that works in a hookah bar” – Jeff Ross