For any questions about classes and payment plans you can reach out to our Training Center Director, Amey Goerlich, at Amey@chaosbloom.com.
We ask that you have previous training if you’d like to register for levels 2 and above. Registration is open to everyone for any level so don’t worry if you haven’t studied with us before. You must be at least 17 years old to take our classes. Any refund requests must be made 7 days before the start of the class.
Improv, Sketch, Clowning, Standup Classes
Feb 16th/23rd March 2nd & 9th 5:30-8pm ($100)
Limited Space Small Class Size
Public Speaking Confidence
Join our 4-week course to become a Confident Public Speaker.
We’ll play fun improv games to help you:
-- Feel confident and comfortable speaking in front of any crowd
-- Think on your feet and handle unexpected questions with ease
-- Engage and inspire your audience by expressing your authentic self
The workshop will be customized based on the specific areas you want to improve.
Whether that’s giving presentations, sales pitches, motivating your team, speaking up in meetings, job interviews, or talking to a large crowd.
Non Sequitur Scenes with Kevin Reome Saturday April 5th 12-3pm ($75)
Break out of your regular scenic ruts and create scenes that have never been done before and will certainly never happen again, using discord to reach accord. This workshop focuses on pushing outside of basic scenic designs and taking risks to generate riveting, original scenes.
Kevin Reome has been teaching improv for 20 years at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. He is a founding member of the long-form improv team “Inside Vladimir” at iO Chicago and also performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade there.
Improv training, both corporate and theater, has taken Reome to the University of Michigan, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinnati, San Diego, Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mexico City and many others including the Western Michigan University football team and the Detroit Tigers. In 2014 he taught in Osaka, Japan for The Second City.
He wrote and starred in various Chicago shows such as The Eulogist, Rahm Zombie, The Reome Awards of Chicago to Benefits Alzheimer’s Research, Lightfoot Loose and currently hosts and plays monthly in The Reome Ring, with a rotating assortment of all-star Chicago improvisers. Check out Reome as a guest on podcasts, Improv4humans, Improv Nerd with Jimmy Carrane and A.D.D. with Dave Razowsky.
He has appeared on the ABC 7 talk show Windy City Live as well as Fox Chicago, NBC5 Chicago, WBBM Newsradio and WLS Talk Radio.
Kevin has a B.A. in English and a teaching degree from Western Michigan University.
Movie Moves for Long Form with Kevin Reome April 6th 12-3pm ($75)
Movie Techniques for Long Form—Explore cinematic improv techniques to enhance your long form work. Apply these imaginative moves to any long form to originate the most dynamic visuals on an improv stage, to show rather than just tell.
Kevin Reome has been teaching improv for 20 years at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. He is a founding member of the long-form improv team “Inside Vladimir” at iO Chicago and also performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade there.
Improv training, both corporate and theater, has taken Reome to the University of Michigan, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinnati, San Diego, Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mexico City and many others including the Western Michigan University football team and the Detroit Tigers. In 2014 he taught in Osaka, Japan for The Second City.
He wrote and starred in various Chicago shows such as The Eulogist, Rahm Zombie, The Reome Awards of Chicago to Benefits Alzheimer’s Research, Lightfoot Loose and currently hosts and plays monthly in The Reome Ring, with a rotating assortment of all-star Chicago improvisers. Check out Reome as a guest on podcasts, Improv4humans, Improv Nerd with Jimmy Carrane and A.D.D. with Dave Razowsky.
He has appeared on the ABC 7 talk show Windy City Live as well as Fox Chicago, NBC5 Chicago, WBBM Newsradio and WLS Talk Radio.
Kevin has a B.A. in English and a teaching degree from Western Michigan University.
Improv Salon Initiations w/ Asa Erlendson
Sunday March 23, 30th and April 6th 1-3pm
This three-part workshop on Initiations will look at the starts of scenes through multiple lenses, ranging from the interpersonal to the physical and spatial as well as the verbal. The second part will continue the work of the first, but it will primarily focus on initiating premises. Fun! Suitable for beginners or advanced players who want to revisit a fundamental aspect of a scene: the start.
Now with an extra day!
Improv Salon: Developing Show Ideas ($60)
April 13th/20th/27th 1-3pm
Facilitators: Alice Gillette and Bryan Richard Martin
Learn some new techniques to take your ideas to a level all your own! In this workshop, you’ll learn how to find new ideas for your creative projects by engaging in curious, inquiry-based activities with others. We'll dive into various methods for brainstorming and polishing ideas into something you can showcase. Join us to improve your creative process and collaborate on your projects with fellow participants.
This workshop can be helpful to you if:
You're making something and feeling stuck.
You’re all out of ideas and wondering how to come up with new ones.
You’d like to bring new layers of experience to your performances by incorporating elements like light and sound.
In this workshop, we’re going to take our serious artistic ideas and turn them into fun and playful possibilities as performers. You’ll brainstorm ideas in class with the help of your facilitators, who will guide you in transforming those ideas into silly “problems”. After that, you’ll explore structured methods or fun games to find creative and whimsical solutions to these challenges.
This process might look different each time: sometimes, the facilitators will give live direction for your performance while your classmates watch as the audience, and other times, you’ll participate in guided group discussions about the “problems” you’re facing.
By the end of this class, you can expect to gain:
New ways to generate ideas for your work.
A workshopped 1-5 minute work-in-progress piece.
Skills in both giving and receiving constructive, artistic feedback.
Collaborating with others is a powerful way to gain deeper insights into yourself. Your next great idea is already within you, just waiting for the perfect moment to emerge. This workshop offers a unique opportunity to uncover your creative ideas in a collaborative environment, allowing you to develop them into works-in-progress alongside a supportive community of fellow artists.
Bryan Richard Martin is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. He’s collaborated with the Los Angeles Unified School District, 826LA, The Getty Museum, Washington DC Public Schools, AmeriCorps and FIRST® on interdisciplinary education projects fusing arts, literacy, and science. Locally, Bryan’s created live scores and compositions for Denver’s Idiot Theatre clown show, and light and sound design for Tutzanni Theatre Company. Bryan’s work has been featured in outlets such as Rolling Stone, Vice, and NPR.
Alice Gillette is a clown, writer, and performance artist known for her “startling yet goofy” performances, as coined by Denver Westword. If you’re not busy on the first Sunday of (any) month, you should join Alice as she hosts Uncanny Valley, a free clown jam in Denver, Colorado.
Improvised Rapping with Megan Miles
Sunday April 27th & May 4th 1-3pm
At Choas Bloom Theater 70 S Broadway
Join Megan8Miles for 2 hours of Freestyle Fun! Explore basic rhyming techniques, storytelling, finding the beat, rap battling and more! Whether it's your first time on the mic, or your 50th...this workshop will challenge your rap skills, build confidence, and most importantly...allow you to have fun!
About the Instructor: Megan8Miles has been freestyle rapping since 2011. She co-created Denver's Original Hip Hop Improv Team SuperBaby. She performed in her first rap battle in 2012, and went on to compete in an additional 10 battles. In 2016, she moved to New York where she studied improv and sketch comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade. Megan was also an original graduate of Freestyle Love Supreme Academy (A Hip Hop Improv School Co-Created by Lin Manuel of Hamilton).
In the Spring of 2024, Megan competed in Denver's "Who Got The Juice" Freestyle Rap Battle, which was judged by Charlie Clips (Wild N' Out) and SuperNatural (Godfather of Freestyle Rap).
In the Fall of 2024, She was also a contestant in Denver's $5280 Body Bag Battle competition.
The Arc of the Scene May 11th & May 18th 1-2pm with Ian Gibbs ($40)
Build it, build it, build it, pop! Time to edit. Once we have the scene foundation we use pattern, heightening, raising the stakes and making discoveries to transform the scene completely. When we get to it, the characters and world experience a day like no other day. This breaking of tension often brings laughter and moves us onto the next scene. Open to all levels of experience.