Tim Paul

Tim Paul is a recent transplant to L.A. from Chicago. He’s currently a faculty member at the Second City Hollywood Training Center. In Chicago, he was a resident director at the Annoyance Theatre. Selected credits include My So-Called Afterlife, Becker, Escape From Ground Zero and Fisting: A Period Piece. In addition to previously being on the faculty at both the Annoyance (Chicago) and Second City (Chicago), he has been a guest instructor at the Annoyance (NYC), Dublin Improv (Dublin, Ireland), The Nursery (London, UK), The New Movement (Austin), Recul (Bucharest, Romania) and Improv Asylum (Boston). Tim was an ensemble member of Mick Napier’s Invisible World at the Annoyance, which was named ‘Best Sketch of 2014’ by Chicago Magazine. In 2015, he spent most of the year performing with Second City from Barcelona to Bermuda aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines. Tim also has a dog named Kitty Dukakis.

2017 Workshop: Improv from the C.O.R.E.
C.O.R.E. is in reference to the four elements I look for in a scene – Character, Objective, Relationship, Environment – these elements provide you with the framework to knock your scene out of the park. In this workshop, I pinpoint & tackle specific weaknesses & bad habits that rise to the surface in your scene work. From there, I will assign specific challenges in later scenes that are geared towards your specific area of need amongst the four elements of C.O.R.E. This class is a scenic bootcamp, where we will look at your scenes form the inside out. There’s no point focusing on the game of the scene, if there’s no real scene to begin with.