ALL CLASSES OFFERED ON PWYC (PAY WHAT YOU CAN) MODEL
✨ We Believe in Making Improv Accessible to Everyone! ✨🎭
As part of our IMPROV4NEWMEXICO® initiative, we provide professionally led classes on a pay-what-you-can
model to encourage community involvement and accessibility. That’s why select classes are offered on a Pay What You Can (PWYC) basis. When you see a class marked PWYC, you choose
an amount that fits your budget—whether that’s the suggested tuition, a reduced amount, or something more if you’d like to help support another student.Your contributions enable us to continue offering high-quality services.
Join us and be part of a growing community.
SUMMER SKILL SERIES
One skill. Four weeks. Better improv.
🗓️ Tuesdays
July 7
July 14
July 21
July 28
🕡 6:30–8:00 PM
💲 $20/session or all 4 for $70
Great scenes don’t just happen. They begin with strong choices. This summer, join us for the Improv NM Summer Skills Series: a new collection of focused workshops designed to help improvisers build confidence one skill at a time.
June Series: INITIATIONS (how to start scenes that are clear, playable, and full of possibility)
No lectures. No fluff.
Just practical exercises, coached scene work, and deliberate practice.
📍 1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
Improv Comedy Summer Camp
Ages 8–12
Monday–Friday
9:00 AM–12:00 PM
$199 Early Bird Registration until July 13th
$225 General Registration starting July 13th
Give your child a week they’ll never forget.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp is designed for repeat campers. Every session introduces new improv games, storytelling exercises, characters, and scene work, giving campers a completely fresh experience each week while continuing to strengthen
their creativity and confidence. Kids build confidence, creativity, communication, and teamwork through games, storytelling, and performance. Every activity is designed to help campers become more comfortable speaking up, thinking
on their feet, and supporting one another—all while having an incredible time.
Throughout the week, campers learn foundational improv skills, create original scenes, and prepare for a live Family Showcase on Friday.
Camp Highlights
- 🎭 Ages 8–12
- 🕘 Monday–Friday
- July 20 – July 24
- 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
- 👥 Small classes (maximum 14 campers)
- ⭐ Professional improv instructors
- 🎉 Friday Family Showcase
Campers Will Build
- Confidence
- Active listening
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
Whether your child already loves performing or simply needs a place to build confidence and make new friends, they’ll leave camp with skills they’ll use far beyond the stage.
Reserve your camper’s spot today. Space is limited.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp
Ages 8–12
Monday–Friday
9:00 AM–12:00 PM
$199 Early Bird Registration until July 20th
$225 General Registration starting July 20th
Give your child a week they’ll never forget.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp is designed for repeat campers. Every session introduces new improv games, storytelling exercises, characters, and scene work, giving campers a completely fresh experience each week while continuing to strengthen
their creativity and confidence. Kids build confidence, creativity, communication, and teamwork through games, storytelling, and performance. Every activity is designed to help campers become more comfortable speaking up, thinking
on their feet, and supporting one another—all while having an incredible time.
Throughout the week, campers learn foundational improv skills, create original scenes, and prepare for a live Family Showcase on Friday.
Camp Highlights
- 🎭 Ages 8–12
- 🕘 Monday–Friday
- July 27 – July 31
- 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
- 👥 Small classes (maximum 14 campers)
- ⭐ Professional improv instructors
- 🎉 Friday Family Showcase
Campers Will Build
- Confidence
- Active listening
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
Whether your child already loves performing or simply needs a place to build confidence and make new friends, they’ll leave camp with skills they’ll use far beyond the stage.
Reserve your camper’s spot today. Space is limited.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp
Ages 8–12
Monday–Friday
9:00 AM–12:00 PM
$199 Early Bird Registration until July 27th
$225 General Registration starting July 27th
Give your child a week they’ll never forget.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp is designed for repeat campers. Every session introduces new improv games, storytelling exercises, characters, and scene work, giving campers a completely fresh experience each week while continuing to strengthen
their creativity and confidence. Kids build confidence, creativity, communication, and teamwork through games, storytelling, and performance. Every activity is designed to help campers become more comfortable speaking up, thinking
on their feet, and supporting one another—all while having an incredible time.
Throughout the week, campers learn foundational improv skills, create original scenes, and prepare for a live Family Showcase on Friday.
Camp Highlights
- 🎭 Ages 8–12
- 🕘 Monday–Friday
- Aug 3 – Aug 7 • 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
- 👥 Small classes (maximum 14 campers)
- ⭐ Professional improv instructors
- 🎉 Friday Family Showcase
Campers Will Build
- Confidence
- Active listening
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
Whether your child already loves performing or simply needs a place to build confidence and make new friends, they’ll leave camp with skills they’ll use far beyond the stage.
Reserve your camper’s spot today. Space is limited.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp
Ages 13+
Monday–Friday
1:00 PM–4:00 PM
$199 Early Bird Registration until July 13th
$225 General Registration starting July 13th
Give your teen a week they’ll never forget.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp is designed for repeat campers. Every session introduces new improv games, storytelling exercises, characters, and scene work, giving campers a completely fresh experience each week while continuing to strengthen
their creativity and confidence. Kids build confidence, creativity, communication, and teamwork through games, storytelling, and performance. Every activity is designed to help campers become more comfortable speaking up, thinking
on their feet, and supporting one another—all while having an incredible time.
Throughout the week, campers learn foundational improv skills, create original scenes, and prepare for a live Family Showcase on Friday.
Camp Highlights
- 🎭 Ages 13+
- 🕘 Monday–Friday
- July 20 – July 24
- 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
- 👥 Small classes (maximum 14 campers)
- ⭐ Professional improv instructors
- 🎉 Friday Family Showcase
Campers Will Build
- Confidence
- Active listening
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
Whether your child already loves performing or simply needs a place to build confidence and make new friends, they’ll leave camp with skills they’ll use far beyond the stage.
Reserve your camper’s spot today. Space is limited.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp
Ages 13+
Monday–Friday
1:00 PM–4:00 PM
$199 Early Bird Registration until July 20th
$225 General Registration starting July 20th
Give your teen a week they’ll never forget.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp is designed for repeat campers. Every session introduces new improv games, storytelling exercises, characters, and scene work, giving campers a completely fresh experience each week while continuing to strengthen
their creativity and confidence. Kids build confidence, creativity, communication, and teamwork through games, storytelling, and performance. Every activity is designed to help campers become more comfortable speaking up, thinking
on their feet, and supporting one another—all while having an incredible time.
Throughout the week, campers learn foundational improv skills, create original scenes, and prepare for a live Family Showcase on Friday.
Camp Highlights
- 🎭 Ages 13+
- 🕘 Monday–Friday
- July 27 – July 31
- 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
- 👥 Small classes (maximum 14 campers)
- ⭐ Professional improv instructors
- 🎉 Friday Family Showcase
Campers Will Build
- Confidence
- Active listening
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
Whether your child already loves performing or simply needs a place to build confidence and make new friends, they’ll leave camp with skills they’ll use far beyond the stage.
Reserve your camper’s spot today. Space is limited.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp
Ages 13+
Monday–Friday
1:00 PM–4:00 PM
$199 Early Bird Registration until July 27th
$225 General Registration starting July 27th
Give your teen a week they’ll never forget.
Improv Comedy Summer Camp is designed for repeat campers. Every session introduces new improv games, storytelling exercises, characters, and scene work, giving campers a completely fresh experience each week while continuing to strengthen
their creativity and confidence. Kids build confidence, creativity, communication, and teamwork through games, storytelling, and performance. Every activity is designed to help campers become more comfortable speaking up, thinking
on their feet, and supporting one another—all while having an incredible time.
Throughout the week, campers learn foundational improv skills, create original scenes, and prepare for a live Family Showcase on Friday.
Camp Highlights
- 🎭 Ages 13+
- 🕘 Monday–Friday
- Aug 3 – Aug 7
- 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
- 👥 Small classes (maximum 14 campers)
- ⭐ Professional improv instructors
- 🎉 Friday Family Showcase
Campers Will Build
- Confidence
- Active listening
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
Whether your child already loves performing or simply needs a place to build confidence and make new friends, they’ll leave camp with skills they’ll use far beyond the stage.
Reserve your camper’s spot today. Space is limited.
Intro to Longform Improv
(8 weeks + Student Spotlight)
Learn the cornerstones of longform improv: grounded, authentic two-person scenes that exist inside of an emotionally-sound base reality. In this course, students will learn how to find the who, what, and where of a scene (a base reality)
and sustain authentic relationships to characters and environment. In short, students will learn how to make things true and play them real.
Prerequisite:
None. All levels welcome!
Led by instructor: Andrew Salazar of The Boyz™.
Capacity: 16 students max (8 students min)
Cost: $250
Dates: TBD
Time: TBD
Location:
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
Pulling Premise
(8 weeks + Student Spotlight)
This class focuses on using tools like monologues to craft premise-driven scenes — the building blocks of a solid longform set. You’ll strengthen your skills in starting scenes with clear ideas that set the tone, while reinforcing the essentials of building a grounded setup (aka a base reality with a where, who, what) and honest authentic emotional responses. We’ll practice revisiting and expanding scenes with multiple beats by exploring and heightening.
Prerequisite:
Level 1: Intro to Longform or prior improv experience.
Led by instructor: Max Maliga
of The Faculty Lounge®.
Capacity: 16 students max (8 students min)
Cost: $250
Dates: TBD
Time: TBD
Location:
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
The Game of the Scene
(8 weeks + Student Spotlight)
In this class, students will learn how to spot the unusual thing in a scene, communicate it to fellow improvisers in real time, and then revisit it in multiple beats within a base reality (where, who, what). Students will learn how to frame and justify, explore and heighten. This ensemble will learn advanced edits and scene mapping to create a compelling longform set. This class is the next step from improvising just a series of seemingly unrelated scenes into a cohesive and fulfilling longform set worthy of an audience.
Prerequisite:
Pulling Premise or equivalent improv experience. Email improvnm@gmail.com for registration approval.
Led by instructor
Rachel Michaela of The Faculty Lounge®.
Capacity: 16 students max (8 students min)
Cost: $250
Dates: TBD
Time: TBD
Location:
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
THE RULE OF MORE: Advanced Heightening (8 Weeks + Student Spotlight)
This class is about more. More fun, more risk, more surprise—and more control. In The Rule of More: Advanced Heightening, students will learn to spot the take their scene and push it to its comedic breaking point—without ever losing sight of character, logic, or relationship. You’ll train your brain to heighten ideas in ways that build momentum and deepen the game and other comedic patterns. We will be using advanced edits—tag runs, thematic sweeps, walk-ons, and transformations—that keep shows dynamic and heightening in their own right. Scenes won’t just evolve… they’ll erupt.
Prerequisite: Students must have completed The Game of the Scene class at IMPROV NM. If you have questions about your eligibility, please email improvnm@gmail.com for registration approval.
Led by instructor: Rachel Michaela
Capacity: 16 students max (8 students min)
Cost: $250
Dates: TBD
Times: TBD
Location:
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
IMPROV LAB:
(8 weeks + Student Spotlight)
A creative playground for advanced improvisers. The Improv4NM® IMPROV LAB is an 8-week advanced course that changes its focus each session. Every cycle introduces a new theme or format–giving improvisers the chance to experiment, collaborate, and push their craft in fresh directions.
Current Lab Focus: TBD
Prerequisite: Students must have completed IMPROVNM’s Advanced Heightening class OR have instructor approval. If you have questions about your eligibility, please
email improvnm@gmail.com.
Led by instructor:
Rachel Michaela of The Faculty Lounge®.
Capacity: 16 students max (8 students min)
Cost: $250
Dates: TBD
Times: TBD
Location:
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
SKETCH COMEDY 1
(6 weeks + Student Spotlight)
Whether your are new to the stage or a performer wishing to hone your comedy skills, Sketch Comedy Acting 1 will get you there. Learn stagecraft, build a toolbox of characters, and identify comedic patterns that will make your work shine. Students will also apply their new skills in a showcase at the end of the session.
Prerequisite: None. Open to all!
Led by instructor: Max Maliga of The Faculty Lounge®.
Capacity: 16 students max (8 students min)
Cost: $250
Dates: TBD
Time: TBD
Location:
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Dates: TBD
1439 San Mateo Blvd. NEAlbuquerque, NM 87111
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is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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