Level Up Your Solos

About this Workshop:

Do you find yourself stuck when faced with an improvised solo? Do you struggle with grounding yourself in emotion, committing with your whole body and owning your choices?

In this workshop, Un-Scripted Theater's Molly Robertson will help you explore how to use emotional dynamics and stage presence to amp up your performance and find your spotlight. Because it's not so much what you sing, as it is how you sing it.

Students will learn tools for how to dial their emotions up and down in order to create a more dynamic performance, and learn how to use skills like physicality, stillness, breath and focus to draw in the audience in and hold their focus.

Due to this workshop being focused on solos, there are limited spots available.

Date, Time & Location: This three hour workshop will take place on Saturday, April 18 from 10:00am to 1:00pm at the Endgames Improv training center at 2989 Mission St, San Francisco.

Advanced Students Welcome: This workshop is open to those who have studied or performed musical improv at the advanced level.

Maximum Capacity: In order to ensure the best possible experience for those taking part, we are capping this workshop at a maximum of 10 total students.

About the Weekend: The 2026 Weekend of Workshops is a two-day event run by Bay Area Musical Improv, featuring eight workshops all taught by local musical improvisers and concluding with our annual FREE Jam & Bread community event--a combination potluck and social gathering, plus improvised songs with a live band! See a full list of all events here.

About the Instructor:

Molly Robertson has been improvising for more than two decades, getting her start studying longform improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. A lifelong fan of musical theater since her formative years as a “theater kid” performing with the Toledo Rep, she developed a passion for musical improvisation in San Francisco under the tutelage of David Norfleet and through the Improv Singing Contest.

Since 2012 Molly has been a company member of Un-Scripted Theater where she has performed in improvised shows such as Let it Snow, A Tale of Two Genres, And It All Went to Hell, and Shakesqueer; as well as developing and co-directing Off Book/Off Broadway and the Worldguide for Wizards and Witches. Along the way she managed to teach longform musical improvisation with a focus on contemporary Broadway influences. She is a founding producer of the West Coast Musical Improv Festival and the Bay Area Musical Improv Festival.