Instructors

Paul believes that improvisers hold a funhouse mirror up to the audience, and teaches with an emphasis on the intersections of improv and psychology, with some Zen and Taoism analogies. A native Okie with a Bachelors in Theatre Education, he’s been improvising since 1998, a grad of Chicago’s The Second City (improv and sketch writing), iO and The Annoyance Theatre in 2000. He performed on the Del-Award winning iO Chicago house team, “Fox Force Five." He created & taught the improv curriculum for Colorado School of Acting, and his own program, The Improv Dojo. He taught improv for Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids, Colorado Free University, and Denver’s The Yes! Lab, and most recently ran Improv at The Comedy Palace's improv training program and shows. Creator/Director of the improvised within an outline modern adaptation shows: “Mafia Macbeth”, “Harry Potter and The Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Redneck Romeo and Juliet”, which has had 6 different runs, and was the first improvised production to be nominated for a Denver Post Ovation Award.