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Night Shift at the Factory - Monthly Improv & Sketch Comedy Search for: Recent Posts The Last Laugh? When Will In-Person Classes Resume? Thursday Nights: All in and All out State of Play 2019 You Shaved My Legs! Eight Weeks with Laugh Masters Academy Recent CommentsWhat is improv comedy & theatre? - The Australian Improv [...]

Level 1 Improv Grad Show - Melbourne Are you in need of a good laugh? A true chuckle, a heartfelt laughter that brings a tear to your eyes? Well look no more, the Level 1 LMA Grad Show is upon us. It's Melbourne's time to shine! Come check out our latest Level 1 Improv class [...]

Vulnerability Sucks* Thanks to a timely tweet back in February, I took a risk and joined my first ever improv class at Laugh Masters Academy. Having only 20 minutes to run to the theatre, I came in late, sweaty and out of breath. In front of me were 12 friendly strangers waiting to be introduced [...]

LMA Family Represents at Sydney Fringe Festival Laugh-Masters Academy is proud to have students, teachers and Alumni alike participating in this year's Fringe Festival here in Sydney. For those who don't know about Fringe, this is the largest independent arts festival in New South Wales for the 7th year in a row. In 2016, Sydney [...]

Improv Gifts For Your Workplace How often in the working world do we experience not being heard? Whether it's because you can't get your boss or coworkers time and attention, or because your thoughts and ideas are responded to with what feel like prepared statements, we've all felt alone in the workplace. One of the [...]

“On The Cusp, Off The Cuff,” - An Improv Comedy Documentary Via: The Comics Comic Who decides to pursue a life or career in improv comedy, what are their motivations, and what is the reality of that life and career, really? Especially if you're living and working in New York City. A few years ago, [...]

What Vanilla Ice Didn’t Tell You About Agile/Lean Methods I have been working in the IT Industry for over a decade and in that time we have seen massive changes in how people are approaching how work gets done, people at all levels are collaborating in entirely new ways. From processes and practices thought up [...]

First Fridays at The Factory Monthly Comedy Show LMA is pleased to announce a new, ongoing relationship with The Factory Theatre in Marrickville, NSW (Sydney). Starting August 5th, 2016 LMA will begin its first regularly scheduled* improv and sketch comedy show - "First Fridays at The Factory" which, as you can probably guess, will be [...]

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Improv Class It's the start of a new term, and that means you're about to be walking into a room ready for some make-'em-ups with a batch of new (and some known) faces. Here's some tips for getting the most out of your class, whether it's the [...]

Improv Photos from the July 15 Blue Note Show! On Friday night we had the LMA’s first Blue Note Comedy Night! - Student Showcase, an evening of amazing comedy featuring a fantastic lineup of Australia’s rising improv and sketch comedy All-Stars. This special evening consisted of LMA's own Practice Team "Shut Up Darryl!", Sketch Team "The Pursuit [...]

UCB Founders Charlie Rose Interview As you may already know the DCM (Del Close Marathon) is happening at UCB in New York City right now (late June, 2016) and the four famous founders of UCB were recently interviewed on Charlie Rose. It's a fantastic piece touching on the origin story of improv and UCB, the [...]

Improv Photos from the Level 2 Gold Coin Show! On Thursday night we had the LMA’s Gold Coin Comedy Night - Student Showcase, an evening of “Nearly Free” comedy featuring a fantastic lineup of Australia’s rising improv and sketch comedy All-Stars. This special evening consisted of LMA's Level 2 Improv Grad Show - with a [...]

Meet Dan Pavatich, Artistic Director, LMA Melbourne Dan Pavatich is an Australian comedy legend, an extremely well rounded improvisor, and overall, a lovely - and funny - fella. He's been actively involved with the improv scene in Melbourne for under a decade and has developed comedy shows, worked and toured as a performer, and helped launch [...]

Joe Bill is Bringing The Power to LMA! Mr. Joe Bill is will be at LMA Sydney for one night only to run his world famous Power Improv Scenes Workshop The focus of this workshop is how to play improv Scenes in any context, but specifically Long Form and Narrative, from a place of strength. We’ll play [...]

Meet Flavie Laliberte: LMA's New Social Media Wizard Laugh-Master Academy is excited to welcome its newest team member: Social Media Coordinator, Flavie Laliberte. We sat down with her for a few questions to get to know her better. What is your name and where are you from? Flavie Laliberte from the beautiful city of Montreal, Canada. How [...]

LMA House Team Audition Results - Term 2, 2016 History was made yet again at The Belvoir St. Theatre last week as LMA Students came out in full force, representing all levels, to show off their improv chops and try for a coveted spot on the LMA House Team. The vision for LMA as we grow, is to have [...]