TEACHING & Facilitation

Whether working with individual performers, stage ensembles, or corporate teams, my focus is on creating supportive spaces where people can take real risks, make specific choices, and build meaningful work together. My classes and workshops balance structure with fluidity, and prioritize authenticity, connection, and exploration. My goal is to help build conditions where strong, supportive work becomes inevitable. Students leave with language, tools, and confidence they can apply practically and immediately.

“Concrete tools without being rigid.”

“Genuine, intentional, respectful.”

“Clear, practical, actionable.”

 

Signature Workshop:
Familiarity Breeds Content

Familiarity Breeds Content will relieve improvisers of the pressure to invent ideas in scenes by exercising the use of details drawn from actual lived experience to create scenes that feel alive and playable from the start. Participants will learn to gift characters with truthful circumstances and genuine perspectives as well as create scene environments with uniquely inspired choices. We’ll explore how stronger connections, clear points of view, and specific details can lead to more authentic and sustainable scene work. By the end, improvisers of any level will be able to build scenes that feel less forced and more natural, while using tools and strengthening the habits that support confident, connected long-form play through practical application.

selected workshops &
Other services

  • Improv Workshops

    • The Improv Expansion Pack

      Focuses on theatricality and adding dimension to scenic improv

    • Activate Tag Exploration

      Focuses on active ensemble support and effective editing

    • Notes for Advanced Improv

    • Musical Improv & Hip Hop Improv

  • Improv Coaching: In-Person or Virtual

  • Corporate Workshop Facilitation

Co-Ho Improv Accelerator

Taught and facilitated by myself and Holly Mandel (The Groundlings), this customized intensive is an entirely curated CoHo-sted program to take your improv community, theater, or ensemble to the next level.

Details coming soon.

Billy has taught, coached, and facilitated at theaters, festivals, schools, and organizations across the U.S. and internationally. Here are a select few:

Festivals & International Workshops

  • Vancouver Improv Festival — Vancouver, Canada

  • Out of Bounds Comedy Festival — Austin, TX

  • Sarasota Improv Festival - Sarasota, FL

  • AndAlso Improv — Brighton / Hove, UK

  • Improv Festivus (Headliner) - Richmond, VA

  • Birmingham Improv Festival — Birmingham, UK

  • Hartford Improv Festival — Hartford, CT

  • Baton Rouge Improv Festival - Baton Rouge, LA

  • Improv Utopia

Theaters, Schools & Training Programs

  • Magnet Theater — New York, NY

  • The Second City — New York, NY

  • North Coast - New York, NY

  • Uptown Theatre / Uptown Improv Academy (Founding Instructor) — Utica, NY

  • Last Word Comedy Festival / Last Word Academy (Inaugural Coach) — Williamsburg, VA

  • Cornerstone Improv - San Diego, CA

  • Buffalo Improv House — Buffalo, NY

  • Flying Squid Comedy — Athens, GA