Want to make your scenes more dynamic and layered? Struggling with steamrolling or getting steamrolled onstage? Curious how subtle power shifts can add depth, surprise, and hilarity to your work?
Understanding and playing with status—the unspoken signals of authority, vulnerability, and influence—is a powerful tool for improvisers. Status awareness can unlock new character choices, heighten emotional stakes, improve ensemble chemistry, and make scenes feel real, grounded, and alive.
In this workshop, we will:
Learn the non-verbal vocabulary of status and how it shows up in improvised performance
Explore your go-to status behaviors and how they shape your stage presence
Discover how intentional status shifts can build relationships and narrative tension
Practice status play to create compelling characters, hilarious power dynamics, and unexpected turns
Whether you're a high-status king looking to fall or a low-status sidekick ready to rise, this session will give you tools to tune into status signals, play with them consciously, and use them to bring your scenes to life.
Prerequisite: Fundamentals 1 and 2 or equivalent with another theatre. Ask instructor if you aren’t sure: [email protected]
Kat Koppett is the founder of Koppett, an organizational development company that combines traditional methods with improvisation and storytelling to enhance performance. She holds degrees from NYU and Columbia and co-directs The Mopco Improv Theatre. Her book Training to Imagine is widely used in the field of Applied Improv. Kat has designed programs for major organizations like Apple, NASA, and JPMorgan, and has spoken at top institutions such as Stanford and RPI. She is Vice-president of the Applied Improvisation Network and host of the podcast Dare to be Human.
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