Bryce's Info
My teaching experience is very much personal experience, trial and error, and I can't boast any education at the hands of notable teachers or improv figures.My teaching began when the original managers and performers with experience from the first professional team I was a part of left us to go open a theater in an adjoining city. There were about five of us left to our own devices with probably a combined five years experience between us. I took an active role to see us keep performing and improving our quality of the show, but it came slowly with a lot of mistakes and errors along the way.
Fast forward six to seven years and we're still performing at the same venue for a steady audience and our troupe performer pool as tripled with improvisers ranging in experience from zero to decades (one with Second City experience teaching and managing), with myself handling the workshops and player development within the troupe.
I've also, for the last three years, been coaching a local high school team at the request of my old high school theater teacher as the team coach. We participate in the annual Shakespeare High School Competition every year down in Cedar City, Utah. The local troupe, Off the Cuff, hosts a multiple school Improv Competition and our team has been in the top five every year, winning first place my first year coaching and having one of the students winning best MC the last two years in a row.
My skills are numerous but I'm aware of my weaknesses and love learning moments to improve myself. I learn bits and pieces from prominent improvisers in the city and from those who pass through or play with us, but my teaching is built on trial and error, and failing and succeeding from my own endeavors.
