IMPROFEST workshop: Improv for Inclusion- Stephanie Rae (USA)

Improfest Extended (a part of Improfest 2025)

Improv for Inclusion

This playful, engaging workshop is for anyone and everyone, regardless of improv background. Participants will build confidence, flexibility, & collaboration skills, learn the importance of respectfully recognizing differences in lived experience, and be equipped with tools for confidently interrupting harm in both personal and professional environments.

Bio:
STEPHANIE RAE is a full-time improv practitioner, freestyle rap artist, and corporate facilitator. She is the founder of the Black Improv Alliance and a Creative Director at freestyle+, where she leads dynamic workshops that blend humor and strategy. Her work as an advocate has provided scholarships and free training to hundreds of BIPOC improvisers, and her background in law and higher education gives her unique perspective. Stephanie has performed and guest played with Baby Wants Candy, North Coast, the Groundlings, Free Daps, and the Tony Award-winning Freestyle Love Supreme - even earning a hug and compliment from Beyoncé herself.

The workshop is a part of Improfest 2025, a theatre festival focusing on improvisational theatre. The festival invites improvisers from Sweden and the rest of the world to give performances and offer workshops in various locations in Sweden during the period May to August 2025

(Workshopen kommer att hållas på engelska då Improfest är en internationell improvisationsteater-festival med inbjudna improvisatörer från hela världen.)