Being in the moment is the key to elevating your time at the table. Learning how to apply the principles and tools of improvisation to your role-play will raise engagement and inject more playfulness into your gaming! This three-hour, limited-enrollment intensive taught by Dave Hill (5-time Del Close Award winning teacher and coach) and Mary Lou (Glass Cannon Network, Smosh, Faster Purple Worm, Kill Kill!, Push the Roll) is designed to help DMs and Gamemasters of all kinds to leverage improv skills to allow you to be at your best moment-to-moment and session-to-session. Dave and Mary will provide instruction and reps on the fundamentals of improv as they relate to running a TTRPG. This includes creating more dynamic NPCs, initiating role-play, spontaneous scene work, and collaborative storytelling. You will leave with real tools for elevating in-game role-play, role-play practice as both PC and DM/GM and loads of strategies for optimizing both! This class includes a completion certificate. Let’s Play! Instructors: DAVE HILL is an actor, improviser, writer and producer living in LA. He has been seen in multiple tv appearances including MODERN FAMILY, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and the short-lived but wonderful NBC sitcom GREAT NEWS. His voice has been heard on such animated series as AMERICAN DAD, AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE and SQUIDBILLIES. He co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the feature film THE NIGHT IS YOUNG (now available on Peacock, Amazon and other streamers). He is a 5-time Del Close Award winning improv teacher and coach and he has died hundreds of different ways while doing voices for video games. Hundreds. MARY LOU is a Los Angeles-based actor, improviser, musician, comedian, and gamer. A series regular on the Glass Cannon Network (Blood of the Wild, The Game Garage), she also appears regularly on Smosh, Faster Purple Worm, Kill Kill!, and Push the Roll. She performs musical improv with Baby Wants Candy and Tabletop Tunes, and her deep roots in tabletop RPGs, LARP, and live performance have made her a respected, sought-after, and celebrated presence in the actual-play and comedy community.