Advanced Game of the Scene with Adam Cawley and Rob Norman

Explore unique ways to discover, play & heighten the game of the scene! Techniques to play game no matter the style or form of your show.

This class will explore multiple, unique ways to discover, play and heighten the game of the scene: Personal games, satellite games, verse/chorus, second beats and callbacks.

Students will be challenged to try on different techniques that will help them feel empowered to play game no matter the style or form of your show.

About the Instructors

Adam Cawley is an alumnus of The Second City Mainstage, The Just for Laughs Festival and is a three-time Canadian Comedy Award Winner, including: Best Male Improviser in Canada. Adam has been an actor and writer on Workin’ Moms (Netflix) and a regular on Baroness Von Sketch Show (IFC). Recently Adam appeared on Ghosts (CBS) and performs sketch comedy for The NFL on FOX (FOX). Juuuust before the pandemic Adam was cast in a new improv television pilot project from the creators of Whose Line is it Anyway? Currently Adam performs in 7 minutes in Heaven at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre as well as The Pack and The Westside Comedy Theatre. 

Rob Norman is a Canadian Screen Award-winning actor, Second City alumni, and author of Improvising Now: A Practical Guide to Modern Improv. Along with his co-host of the Backline, Adam Cawley, Rob tours the world teaching modern improvisation. He can be heard frequently on Canadian public radio and is the producer of CBC's Personal Best, which Time Magazine calls "easily one of the funniest podcasts on air". 

Together, they host The Backline Podcast and perform as RN & Cawls