Performance Lab
Our most advanced class: develop a new improv format over an 8-week course with your fellow students.
What is Performance Lab?
Performance Lab is our most advanced study of long-form improvisation. Attendance is by application only.
Students will spend 8-weeks working together, guided by an experienced FA teacher, to devise and develop their own improv show format. The class will focus on workshopping and refining a unique improv show concept created by the class over the course, culminating in two evening run of the new show at The FA Theatre.
Prerequisites
It's recommended students have completed at least one full performance level track (Organic, Narrative, or Premise) at The FA Theatre, or have completed our levels 1-5 in previous years.
We will also accept students with a significant amount of training and / or improv performance experience too.
Class Performances
This class culminates in a two evening run of your new format at The FA theatre, and includes a mid-course performance to help you incorporate feedback from that live show into the development.
Apply to join Performance Lab
These applications are used to help us put together a team for the course, they are not a measure of your ability as a performer or your value as a human.
When putting the class together, we will look for a mix of experience and approaches, not just length of time or number of previous classes taken.
We will endeavour to get back to everyone who applies and, if you don't make it onto one course, we may well be in touch to offer you a place on the following one.
Upcoming intakes
- January Wednesdays 6:30PM – 9:30PM From 6th Jan – 24th Feb 2027 The FA Theatre, Southwark
- March Wednesdays 6:30PM – 9:30PM Exact dates TBC The FA Theatre, Southwark
“Best improv school in London.”
Where are classes held?
We deliver courses from our Southwark theatre and other spaces across London. Please always check the location of your class when booking.
