Teaching - IMPRO Amsterdam 2025

Hello Teacher! We want to learn about you.

Welcome to the teaching application for IMPRO Amsterdam 2025!
If you have an idea for a workshop that can benefit the improv community, we want to hear all about it.

This year’s festival will run from 15 to 22 February 2025 in Amsterdam Noord, centered around 't Zonnehuis (Zonneplein 30, 1033 EK Amsterdam).

Workshops are one of the biggest draws for festival attendees — the more interesting, unusual, supportive, and diverse, the better.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a wide variety of workshops — we’re open to all backgrounds, levels of difficulty, subjects, and styles — that can help our festival attendees learn, grow, and connect. Our workshop offerings start at 3 hours and have no maximum length, although they are rarely longer than three full workshop days (18 hours).

IMPRO Amsterdam festival attendees themselves come from a wide range of backgrounds and have many different levels of improv experience, and we’d like to cater to all of them. That means that we’re looking for everything, including (but not limited to):

• Great workshops that cover improv fundamentals in interesting ways (group work, character creation, emotion, musical, etc.)
• More theoretical workshops that explore improv topics in greater depth (plot structures, song structure, viewpoints/staging, masks and silence, international theater modalities, etc.)
• Format or  workshops that use a format/genre as a way to discover and practice new techniques (a format you’ve developed, a classic format, a movie or theater genre/director, etc.)
• Technical workshops for directors, producers, and techs (dramaturgy, lighting, directing, etc.)
• Exploratory workshops from who are masters of their own field (dance, acting, LARP, movement, , etc.)

From a teaching style/methodology standpoint, we’re looking for:

• Teachers who are . While it’s not necessary for you to have taught before, or taught this workshop before, we expect you to have a plan and be respectful of the fact that attendees have chosen to spend their time and money to learn from you.
• Warmth and supportiveness. We love and encourage notes and feedback, but we also want students to leave your workshop feeling good, not stressed and down on themselves.
• A focus on student safety. We take boundaries and emotional/physical safety very seriously, and it is the teacher’s job to maintain this and curate an environment where students feel safe enough to get out of their comfort zone.

What’s in it for you?

If your workshop is selected, the festival offers:

• A workshop of at least 3 hours, taught by you, at a rate of 65 € per hour.
  • If the workshop is  or involves a musician, the rate per hour is raised to 97,50 € per hour in total, to be split amongst the teachers/musicians.
• 20% discount on any workshop you wish to attend.
• A free ticket for any show at the festival
• The opportunity to meet and work with a phenomenal community of improvisers from around the world.

Selected workshops could be scheduled anytime from 15 to 22 February, so please be sure to  your availability before submitting!

Deadline to apply

The form to apply will be open until 30 September, 2024.

We will let you know whether or not you have been selected before the end of October.

What if I want to do something else in the festival too?

You can also apply for other roles in the festival — all applications have the same deadline:

• Performing with an Established Group — for troupes looking to perform a practiced, mainstage ready format
• Performing a New Format  — for fresh or seasoned improvisers wanting to try out something new
• Hosting a Jam Session — for leading an original, playful jam open to all festival attendees
• Directing a show for the IMPRO Amsterdam Cast — for those with a great show idea who’d like to bring it to life with our Cast

What do we need from you?

Pretty much what you’d expect — some information about you for our marketing, contact info, and a pitch for your jam.

Your email and phone numbers will not be communicated to anyone other than festival organizers and your members.

If you have any questions, you can reach Erica (Artistic Director) at arti@impro-amsterdam.nl.

Warm regards,
IMPRO Amsterdam Team