Putting Your Whole Self In

About this Workshop:

Do you struggle to activate your whole body in musical improv? Do you often find yourself in scenes without a sense of your own physicality, your emotions or your surroundings?

In this workshop, Myles Nye will help you to explore all of the physical gifts of your instrument--your body and voice--and use them to quickly get to what the scene and song are really about.

Students will learn tools for not just building out your improvised physical space, but for interacting with it in ways that deepen your understanding of your emotions and relationships and allow you to sing about what really matters. Ultimately, this is a workshop about the space around us and the closeness between us.

Date, Time & Location: This three hour workshop will take place on Sunday, April 19 from 10:00am to 1:00pm at the Endgames Improv training center at 2989 Mission St, San Francisco.

Intermediate/Advanced Students Welcome: This workshop is open to those who have studied or performed musical improv at the intermediate or 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 12 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:

Myles Nye is a Berkeley improviser who began taking classes from Bruce Ducat at age 12. Since then, he's improvised professionally with ComedySportz and other companies. Myles joined ComedySportz LA in 2002 when he was still an undergrad at UCLA. Myles performed in hundreds of matches over 17 years with the team, appearing in All Star Matches and teaching workshops at championships in Chicago, San Jose, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, Quad Cities, and Philadelphia. Now Myles plays with the San Jose team. In addition to his improv with ComedySportz, Myles performs in improvised musicals, cabaret shows, and improvised Shakespeare. He is currently studying with Diana Brown in Berkeley Repertory Theater's Advanced Improvisation Lab. Myles also designs challenges for "Survivor" and writes trivia questions for the British quiz "Only Connect."