Believe me!

The workshop trains the muscle of honesty in improv. If we play smart we will for sure find that dumb thing together. In the workshop students learn all sorts of different tools to connect with their scene partner. By creating a real bond between you and your scene partner you have created the perfect base for all your lovely dumb ideas and characters to come to you freely.

The objective of the workshop is to create three dimensional, truthful characters with truthful POVs. In the workshop students will experiment with the improv-form “La Ronde” where it’s obvious that funny ideas exist between two or more characters, not only within the character that gets the laughs.

Ólafur Ásgeirsson is an Icelandic actor and improviser based in Reykjavík. Ólafur has been doing weekly improv shows with "Improv Ísland" since 2016. Ólafur has taught all levels of improv since 2015. Ólafur has twice performed with Improv Iceland at the Del Close Marathon in New York in 2015 & 2017, and with Improv Ísland and "Svanurinn" at Reykjavík International Improv festival in 2017 & 2018 and Das Improv festival Berlin in 2019. Ólafur also performed with the improv troupe Svanurinn at the ICC Theatre festival ‘18 in Copenhagen. Ólafur graduated with a B.A. in Drama from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2015. Subsequently he moved to New York where he studied The Michael Chekhov Technique and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade. During covid-times Ólafur studied polish and has made two professional theatre shows for Polish audiences in Iceland. Ólafur was nominated as Best Actor in a Leading role in 2021 at the Icelandic Theatre awards; “Gríman” for his role in "Co za poroniony pomysł", and Ólafur won the Newcomer of the Year award at “Gríman” with his theatre group “Leikfélagið PóliS”.