TUESDAYS, 7-9 PM, APRIL 2025
CLASS DESCRIPTION: Learn the Improv fundamentals in a comfortable, fun, supportive environment. If want to do comedy professionally OR if you want to have the craic and meet other creative folks; Improv builds personal confidence and will challenge you creatively in the most enjoyable way possible. Whether you've taken Improv previously OR if you're trying Improv for the first time, we promise you'll leave this course with lasting confidence, new connections, and a clearer understanding of COMEDY.
CLASS LOCATION: The Back Page, 199 Phibsborough Rd, Phibsborough, Dublin 7, D07 A0X2
CLASS TIME: Tuesdays, 7-9 PM
CLASS DATES:
• 15 April 2025
• 22 April 2025
• 29 April 2025
• 6 May 2025
• 13 May 2025
• 20 May 2025
* 27 May 2025
CLASS LIMIT: 14
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Erin McGathy
Erin McGathy has been teaching Improv since 2008. . She began performing at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Los Angeles and the iO West Theatre in 2006. Whilst in LA, she performed and wrote on several UCB Sketch Shows, as well as The Gentleman’s Club with Bob Odenkirk for the Second City, was on UCB and IO West Harold and repertory teams, and also co-founded the lauded Improvised Tennessee Williams’ team, The Kind Strangers. Erin has performed and taught across the states and Europe, including at the Second City in Chicago, Boom Chicago, the UCB Theatre in NY, iO Chicago, Austin City Limits, SF Sketch Fest and SXSW, and the 2016-2018 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringes. Her 2018 Improvised Play, Witches and Dogs, (directed by Craig Cackowski) was an audience favourite at The Dublin Fringe Festival. TV credits include Community, Drunk History, Party Legends and HarmonQuest for Seeso. She is a current ensemble member of Dreamgun Film Reads and the Artistic Director of MOB Theatre Dublin and can be seen in the 2023 film, Apocalypse Clown and SOULM8TE from Universal Pictures in 2025.
** Students are granted free admission to all MOB shows for the duration of the course.
** We will refund tuition in full up until one-week before class starts due to limited space.
** Pay half of the tuition now to enrol, and the rest four weeks after the start of the course. Students are responsible for 2nd half of the payment regardless of participation in the course.
** We are committed to maintaining personal safety in the MOB classroom and at shows. Enrolled students are expected to sign and adhere to our Code of Conduct. We reserve the right to drop students from the course who violate our Code of Conduct without refund. MOB CODE OF CONDUCT
