Adult Classes

Adult Improv

This 8-week class meets Saturdays, January 11 - March 1, from 11:30am-1pm. The class will culminate in an open studio class at noon to 1:30pm on Saturday, March 1. 

Ages 18+. $25 registration fee plus $75 per month.

  • Improv is totally unscripted, totally exciting, and totally fun. This class will teach the basics of improvised theater (with an emphasis on the longform style), in a studio setting that will promote creativity, spontaneity, and collaboration. Participants will create characters, situations, and stories out of thin-air in a positive and affirming environment that’s never serious, but is always seriously fun. Ages 18+.

    Throughout the course, students will develop and improve performance skills. Students will work without a script through a number of activities that build great comic timing and confident quick thinking. All experience levels are welcome, and the class will be tailored to accommodate the abilities of its participants.


    Why take this class? Improv is perfect for actors, yes, but also for anyone who speaks publicly: teachers, lawyers, politicians, businesspeople and anyone with a product to sell. Improv teaches you to think on your feet, make snap decisions, and to follow the Golden Improv Rule: to say “Yes” to life!

  • Josiah Correll -During his first improv performance at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California, Josiah realized he had stumbled upon an art form that was incredibly meaningful to him. He had practiced improv games as acting exercises, but never before had he performed improv for an audience. It was at that moment he realized that improv would be something that remained a constant passion in his life.

    Over the next 10 years, Josiah would receive training from some of the top improv institutions in the country, most notably at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City and The Second City in Chicago. He has taught and coached improv teams in New Delhi, Chicago, Houston and Lexington.

    Professionally, Josiah has performed in several productions throughout the country. Some of the most notable productions being, Escanaba in da Moonlight at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, While the Sun Shines a play that Josiah co-authored and produced with fellow UK Alum, Nathan Richard Wagner, and Long Time Traveling, a play by Silas House, which had its premiere in Lexington. You can currently find Josiah performing Improv with Central Kentucky Improv.

Intermediate Tap dance

This 10-week class meets Saturday mornings, 11am-12pm, from January 18 to March 22. The class will culminate in a showcase on Thursday, March 27 at 7:30pm. 

Ages 8 and up. $25 registration fee + $67 per month.

  • Students will take their next steps (pun intended!) on their journey to tap-dancing success with this class. Intermediate tappers will continue to develop their artistry as performers and advance their skills in a variety of styles and techniques - including tap choreography. Ages 8+.

    Why take this class? Students with some experience in tap dancing will enjoy furthering their abilities and expanding their “dancer toolbox.” And this class isn’t just for kids. Anyone 8 and up can participate!

  • Kyla Shinsky - Kyla Shinsky was born and raised in Maryville, Tennessee. She's been dancing for 18 years, competing and training at Artistic Dance Unlimited. She has learned various dance styles ranging from ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, modern, musical theater, tap and acrobatics. She now attends the University of Kentucky where she is getting her BA in Arts Administration and Dance. There, she is expanding her knowledge and passion with dance involving herself in the program’s intense number of performances.  She is also the President of the University of Kentucky Ensemble where she choreographs and trains to further explore and practice her technique.