IMPROFEST workshop: How To Be A Weirdo - Laura Riseborough

'How To Be A Weirdo' is a workshop focused on taking your characters to the next level. Try new tools and approaches to character development in improv and help build confidence to let your own inner-weirdo out on stage. Try techniques to more fully inhabit a range of different roles, surprise the audience, surprise yourself! Expand your acting range and trust your instincts, to discover you actually have a whole party of characters hidden in your improviser's backpack.

"If you're lucky enough to find a Weirdo, never let them go!"

Bio:
Laura Riseborough is an Improviser, Actor and Character Comedian.

In the UK, Laura has performed in comedies and dramas for the BBC, Disney, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 21Soho, Hampstead Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Old Vic New Voice & The Pleasance. Internationally she has performed in the US, Canada, Cuba, France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Irland and South Africa.

As an Improviser, Laura performs and teaches long-form at The Free Association in London, along with coaching a number of other UK teams. She has guested on tour with Austentatious, Steen Improvises with Friends & the Great Job podcast. She can be seen performing in her regular teams '666 Hell Lane', 'Fluff' & 'Northern Powerhouse'. Last year she played at Das Improv Fest in Berlin, Edinburgh Fringe and International Comedy Festival in Scotland.

Laura trained in Classical acting, Method acting, Clown and Commedia Dell'Arte. But she's been preparing for the 'How To Be A Weirdo' workshop all her life!

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.)