Music Improv Level 1: Rhymes & Reasons

Duration: 4-weeks
Dates: Thursdays 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/9, Grad Show on Friday 4/10 (Note that 4/2 is excepted)
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Number of Students: 6 to run, 12 max
Prerequisites: Improv 1: The Basics

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION CLOSES ON FRIDAY 3/6/2026

Already know the basics of improv and you’re ready for a new challenge? Find the song in your heart and we’ll help you sing it! With instructor and veteran improviser Kat Kuo and accompanist Shaun Jones as your guides, you’ll learn how to make up songs onstage while giving them style and substance. 

ABOUT THE TEACHER

Kat Kuo graduated from her first improv course at ComedySportz of the Triangle in 1998. Since then, she has studied with Baltimore Improv Group, improv Little Rock, PIT, Buffalo Improv House, and Buffalo Comedy Collective, plus instructors specializing in music-based improv from around the country and beyond. She is a current member of ComedySportz Buffalo and the Focus Theater’s Artistic Council. Kat founded the “improvised rockumentary” musical improv group Ham Radio for 2024’s Rochester Fringe Festival and currently supplies vocals and chaotic percussion for Mouth Harpo, Rochester’s only improvised indie rock band. 

ABOUT THE ACCOMPANIST

Shaun is a multi instrumentalist and instrument maker drawing from 15 years of immersion in a wide spectrum of musical performance, including experimental noise, jazz, hip-hop, and other cross cultural exchanges with musicians from diverse traditions of music making/instrument building. Over the last few years, Shaun has been unfolding a love for musical improv comedy as well, supplying musical backbone to Ham Radio in 2024 and Mouth Harpo since 2025.