2015

LMA House Team Auditions for 2016 Laugh-Masters Academy is inviting Students & Teachers to audition for several new Official LMA Improv Teams, known as House Teams. House Teams will be given opportunities to regularly perform on stage at The Belvoir Theatre (and other venues), participate in official LMA events, represent LMA in the wider Improv [...]

Student Blog: Dear Someone Who is Thinking About Trying Improv, But Isn’t Quite Sure... Dear Someone who is thinking about trying improv but isn’t quite sure, Hi. My name is Nish. I’m not originally from a drama or comedy background, or really anything that’s required me to be on stage. In fact, I used to be a [...]

LMA is thrilled to welcome Sketch Comedy legend Tony Starr to the roster. Tony has recently relocated to Sydney from L.A. and boy has he hit the ground running. In under a year he has already developed, co-wrote and performed in the Show Giddyup Garfunkle at the Sydney Fringe Festival and regularly performs around town. We're extremely excited to have Tony [...]

Improv Master (and Superstar DJ) Andrew Wowk Joins the LMA Roster Well, we know who is gonna DJ every single LMA party from now on: Mr. Andrew Wowk. Not only is Andrew a well known and respected performer in the Sydney Improv scene, he's also deft on the decks. You can check out some of his [...]

LMA Financial Aid Programs Here at LMA we don't think money should be the thing that stops you from doing the things you love. Especially when the things you love are Improv and Sketch Comedy classes at LaughMasters Academy. The good news is we have a limited amount of financial aid avaialble for any students who [...]

Burgers For Better Brains* *Or something like that. Laugh Masters Academy will be on the Mindfulness Matters 2.0 jars at Grill'd on Crown St. in Sydney this October in recognition of World Mental Health Month. We wanted to give you the heads up before the month kicks off so you have time to spread the [...]

Pete Lead Joins the LMA Roster Super exciting news today for all LMA students and alumni, Mr. Pete Lead has come on board and will be teaching our next Level 3 Improv Class in Sydney. If his smiling face is familiar, you may have seen him perform at one of our Gold Coin Comedy Nights. We [...]

Guest Blog: Will Hines, UCB Instructor When you ask people to think of reasons why someone took an improv class for the first time you get answers like “I wanted to do something fun” or “I’m a huge comedy fan” or “I wanted to be able to think on my feet more for my job.” [...]

The Hard Truth: Be Kind I frequently have performers ask me for the hard truth, the tough note. "Be brutal" they might ask, or "tell me like it is" or "I haven't got feedback on my work in a long time. Help!" or "People like my work, but I feel bored. What is wrong?!" It [...]

The "Gold Coin" Improv & Stand-Up Comedy Show #2 Hoo-doggie! We are super excited to announce LMA's second Gold Coin Comedy Night, an evening of "Nearly Free" comedy featuring a fantastic lineup of Australia's rising improv and stand-up All-Stars. This special evening will start off with shows performed by LMA's current  Level 1 and Level 2 Improv grads, followed by a comedy set starring current [...]

Guest Blog By: Kelly Leonard, EVP of The Second City We've re-posted this special Guest Blog because its that good, and updated it with a fantastic video interview with Kelly and Tom Yorton, Authors of the definitive book on improv in business - "Yes, And." If you're in business, improv can help. Full stop. For more about [...]

Kristin Hensley Joins the LMA Roster We are thrilled to welcome Kristin Hensley to LMA and look forward to having her down to run some of our very popular "Intro to Improv" weekend intensives,  a special "on camera audition" workshop just for Actors, and her famous "How to Break into Hollywood" class. It's all coming your way, [...]

Guest Blog: Kate Murphy, Backbone Brisbane Introduce yourself and what you do: Hi I'm Kate, I work at Backbone Youth Arts as a workshop facilitator. I teach students age 9-13 yrs. We do lots of fun things in class, ranging from performance skills, story building and characterisation. I myself am an improvisation junky... I introduced [...]

The LMA Improv Instructor Exchange Program If Crocodile Dundee, Vegemite sandwiches and "shrimps on the barbie" is all you know about Oz, you need to come down for a reality check. And a surf lesson. And some koala love. And to teach. LEARN MORE But this is a real sign This is a real sign from [...]

Watch Now: All-Star Improv Q&A with The Thrilling Adventure Hour / WorkJuice Players If you missed our sold out Improv Q&A with The Thrilling Adventure Hour / WorkJuice Players during Sydney Comedy Festival Week - here's the entire thing for your viewing pleasure. HOSTED BY: Paul F. Tompkins STARRING: Craig Cackowski, Carla Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, [...]

Holy Shiznit! David Razowsky is Coming to LMA! UPDATE: You missed it, but that doesn't mean you can't still get Razzled - Follow LMA on twitter and search for #razzled to pick up some of Dave's legendary and quotable wisdom! Sorry, but seriously, HOLY SHIZNIT! Widely considered by many to be the "Guru of Improv," Dave [...]