This course will be centered on ensemble-building through the fundamentals of improv, collaborative scene-building, and scene study. We will begin the semester with games and exercises, centering joy and play in what it means to create an ensemble, while developing our improvisational toolkit. From there, we will work with scene-building prompts that will challenge us to engage the core principles of improv while beginning to explore opportunities for more nuanced character development and story-telling. We will conclude the semester with a study of two-character scenes in a rehearsal structure that continues to center the spontaneity and creative risk-taking of improv work in our approach to published scripts. At the end of the term, students will have the opportunity to share one or more of the pieces they worked on over the course of the semester in a showcase.