Code of Conduct
We have developed a short code of conduct to ensure that everybody feels safe and happy and can get the most out of their experience at the Würzburger Improtheaterfestival. Reading through this code will give you an idea of our festival philosophy and values.

Cancellation of your workshop place
Until July 31st you can cancel your workshop spot and we will refund your festival fee minus an administrative fee of 30 Euros. If you cancel your spot after July 31st, we can only refund your participation fee minus the administrative fee of 30 Euro if we can fill your place - you are also welcome to suggest a person.

Liability
No liability can be accepted for self-inflicted accidents, wardrobe, damage to property and lost items.

The level system helps us building homogeneous workshop groups to ensure that everybody gets the most out of their workshop experience. Please make an honest and self-critical assessment of which level best suits you. We reserve the right to cancel bookings whose level does not match the stated level of the workshop.

Would you like create a theatre experience where the audience is holding their breath and tension can be cut with a knife? Allowing intimacy into your improvisation scene work is a way to achieve this.
Often, however, we shy away from honest, private, loving, passionate or heartbreaking moments on stage. Why? What are our limitations and apprehensions? In order to be intimate on stage, we need to let down our guards and be fully authentic with someone else. If we can trust ourselves and our fellow players, then we can slip into the intimacy zone with our characters and their stories.
In this workshop, we will learn procedures to feel completely comfortable and safe with our partners on stage. Then we will bring this training into scenes and discover the full range of intimate situations that can happen between characters. Whether it be small delicate experiences, or those bigger-than-life moments that require our full commitment and bravery, we’ll explore how far and how deep we would like these scenes to go. We'll see how becoming vulnerable helps us to mesmerize the audience and create stories full of tension, fondness and flair.

Note: This type of work is not about touch (although touch can happen, if it is comfortable for both sides)

Hila Di Castro is an actress, international improviser and teacher based in Israel. You can find her every year in Pandora improve festival (Italy) as she is the director of the international cast. Hila is the co-founder, member and co-artistic director of the trio MOMENTUM – one of the leading improv groups in Israel. She is the creator and director of the show "Woman up!" and also the host and one of the performers both in the Israeli and the international cast. She is leading this show with a vision of a worldwide project to create a web of women groups performing it worldwide. Hila is the co-founder of "equal & above" improve workshops and shows that aims to advocate gender equity throughout Israel and the world. For over 10 years Hila tours the world performing and teaching acting and improv. She has visited over 10 countries, Bringing her unique, inspiring, personal style and improv philosophy.

Do you feel like improvised shows revisit the same types of scenes over and over? Do you ever leave the theatre unable to remember what you saw or why you saw it? There are strong arguments to be made for light entertainment. Quick comedy is playful and spontaneous, and audiences deserve to laugh. Still, the stage is a dangerous place. It should not lack consequence.
This workshop is about putting risqué or unsavory behavior on stage and exposing its effect. It is a chance to explore controversial or troubling content and learn how to handle it sensitively and poignantly. We'll turn up the temperature on risk and relationship and play informed characters that champion philosophies or feelings quite the opposite of our own. Participants will develop the skills of naughtiness and mischief in a playful atmosphere of support and trust. There will be fun and failure as well as candid constructive feedback.

Andrew Hefler is a performer, director, trainer working in theatre, music, film and television for nearly thirty years. He was first introduced to Improvisational theatre at the age of 10 in grade school in Los Angeles. Since then he has worked with theatre groups in the US, Canada, Europe and since 1994 in his homebase of Budapest. He was a founding member of the experimental impro trio Scalabouche and later he founded Grund Theatre in 2008 developing a company and training methods for actors and shows for performance. Grund Theatre has a strong mission for creating progressive relevant improvised theatre, television content, and skill building courses for the public. Education for people in the entertainment industry as well as applying improvisation for a wide range of clients from the professional business, socially conscious sectors.

Shawn will offer a specially designed workshop combining the elements on the topic of the cancelled workshop - with the additional focus on "UNIVERSAL STORIES".  In his style, Misbehaviour, Taboos, and Challenging Themes will be essential elements he will focus on as the group dives into the stories that affect us all.

About this, Shawn says:
"In the past decade, my focus has aimed at the idea of "Universal stories". To be clear, if you are human, you have experienced a complete range of emotions that we all share based on stories we all go through. You have felt drawn to another, You have felt isolated, You have cried and laughed and wished for things you desired. You've felt the dark side as well as the light.  Being human is an experience in Universal Stories. Telling these stories connects us all.

No human experience is limited to any one person, and yet, the details make each experience unique. The universal stories that connect us can be light and fun - but they also can be dark, embarrassing, risqué or unsavoury. In class we will create a safe environment and find the tools to perform our stories in ways that gives us the skill to offer these universal stories to audiences on stage."

For 40 years Shawn Kinley has been performing and teaching all over the world (55 countries at last count). With a background in Mime, Mask, Physical Theatre and Improvisation, Shawn brings a mix of styles and tools from many areas for all skill levels and backgrounds.
He is based in Canada at The Loose Moose Theatre where he performs, directs, teaches and creates when he is not travelling the world 6 months of the year. He worked directly with Keith Johnstone for more than 20 years and has taught in the National Theatres and Operas of Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, Scotland as well as for Scientists in Israel, Technology managers in Dubai, Lawyers in the U.S., Children everywhere and various Universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Tokyo, and more.
His favourite influences are from his students and he often quotes 6-year-old children for their wisdom in the art of improvisation. In 2023 he opened a school dedicated to Improvisation and related arts: www.theIMPROVISATIONschool.com.

The world is changing fast, and we are often not sure what we are “allowed” to do on stage and what is “inappropriate”. We find ourselves facing questions like:
How do we tackle political, racial, gender issues in improvisation?
How do we play the bad guys and/or people who are different from us?
What do we want to say and how do we avoid propaganda while saying it?
How do we keep our improvisation playful and funny while tackling deep, disputed, or dubious topics?
If you are interested in making relevant, meaningful, thought-evoking improvisation – this workshop is for you! Come open minded, assume good intentions, and join the ride.

Inbal Lori is a graduate of Jerusalem art high school (1994) and Nisan Nativ acting studio (2000). Since then She writes and acts for television and theater and has won prizes and scholarships for her acting and writing. Inbal started improvising in Tel Aviv in 2001. In 2015 Inbal moved to Berlin and since then she is teaching and performing all over the world in places like: the U.S.A, Canada, Australia, Colombia, Japan, Nigeria and Europe. In a business context Inbal is working and coaching companies like: Spotify, Disney, EY, Doberman, McKinsey, Rolls Royce and more.