Upcoming
CSz 291 - The Cinder Block - Resetting Your Default
$ 75 usd
Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 12:00 – 2:00 PM PST
Portland Comedy Theater, 535 NW 16th Ave, Portland, OR, United States Map
The Cinder Block - Resetting Your Default
This workshop is for you if you are looking for:
• Rekindling your love of improv
• Reframing your approach to the artform
• Saving time on your new improv journey by getting into good habits quickly
• Tuning your improv skills
• Brushing up on basics
• Breaking out of ruts
• Brushing the dust off
• Getting back into improv after taking time off
• Tightening up your performances
• Taking a super fun improv workshop!
I like the idea of cinder blocks because they provide a solid foundation; simple materials, easy to build with, plenty of space inside for your own creativity and style.
This workshop is designed for all levels of experience. This workshop is designed to make sure we all have fun performing improv. This workshop is designed to help alleviate that feeling of anxiety on stage of, "what the heck do I do now?"
Save! If you took CSz 290, use the coupon TOAST to save $10 on this class!
PREREQUISITE: Participants should have completed one or more levels of improv training from any program anywhere.
Joe Spence is a graduate and former house team member with teaching or coaching experience at the Second City Hollywood, iO West, Nerdist School and ComedySportz LA, and has also studied at UCB and with Groundlings founder Gary Austin. Joe is also a member of the teaching staff at Gary Spatz’s The Playground, the only bonded young actor’s conservatory in Los Angeles where, until recently, was in charge of the teen acting program.
Joe has been teaching improvisers from age pre-K to post-90 for almost twenty years and enjoys the ability of the art form to take an artist places they never knew they could go.
Coaches
Joe Spence
Visiting Professor
Contact us
- Patrick Short, Education Director
- pa••••k@por••••y.com
- 503.236.8888 x4
Location
Portland Comedy Theater, 535 NW 16th Ave, Portland, OR, United States
Classifications
Categories
- Adult Classes
Age Groups
- Adult
Levels
- 200
- 300
- 400