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Special Visiting Teacher: Build-a-Bear — Skill Work Customized to Your Needs

$ 75 usd
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Sat, Feb 28, 2026, 12:00 – 2:00 PM PST
Portland Comedy Theater, 535 NW 16th Ave, Portland, OR, United States Map
Special Visiting Teacher: Build-a-Bear — Skill Work Customized to Your Needs

Build-A-Bear

Best for: Anyone who has completed one or more levels of improv training at Portland Comedy Theater or elsewhere.

A one-time-only-workshop-catered-to-the-needs-of-that-group-never-to-be-offered-again-...-ever-!

We will really curate the class together on the needs of the many and there will never again be a workshop exactly like it again.

Please use the comment section of the registration form to tell us one or more things you would like to work on or are looking to practice or are struggling with.

SAVE! If you took one previous Joe Spence classe, use the coupon TOAST to save $10. If you took BOTH, use the coupon JAM to save $20 on this class!

Joe Spence is a graduate and former house team member with teaching or coaching experience at the Second City Hollywood, iO West, Nerdist School and ComedySportz LA, and has also studied at UCB and with Groundlings founder Gary Austin. Joe is also a member of the teaching staff at Gary Spatz’s The Playground, the only bonded young actor’s conservatory in Los Angeles where, until recently, was in charge of the teen acting program.


Joe has been teaching improvisers from age pre-K to post-90 for almost twenty years and enjoys the ability of the art form to take an artist places they never knew they could go.

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Joe Spence

Visiting Professor

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Location

Portland Comedy Theater, 535 NW 16th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Classifications

Categories
  • Special One-Day Workshops
Age Groups
  • Adult