Stacey Smith
Steffen Brinkmann
Stacey Smith /Steffen Brinkmann
The Complete Score:
Musical Improv Toolbox
WS Intensive - Music
06.11.2026 - 08.11.2026
Meeting Friday 06.11.2026 1:45 pm
Workshop time:
Friday 14 - 17 pm
Saturday 10 am - 5 pm (lunch included)
Sunday 11 am - 3 pm
Duration 13 hours
Workshop language: Easy English
Level: 2-3
The Complete Score:
Musical Improv Toolbox
Stop surviving the song and start conducting the scene with The Complete Score: Musical Improv Toolbox, a high-energy intensive designed for experienced players ready to trade "rhyme-panic" for theatrical magic.
This session cracks open the professional toolkit to help you build improvised songs that look, sound, and feel like the real deal. You’ll master the art of the big build by crafting memorable choruses with satisfying structural payoffs, while simultaneously learning to use the stage to create cinematic, Broadway-ready pictures. We’ll dive deep into character-first vocals - teaching you to sing from the soul of your character rather than just the top of your lungs - and explore the stylistic keys to any musical kingdom, from ballads to Sondheim-esque patter.
About Stacey
Stacey is an internationally recognized improviser, performer, director, and educator with over a decade of experience. Originally from Long Island, New York Stacey grew up in an environment steeped in music and musical theater before studying theater, linguistics, and music in college. She trained at The Second City, iO, and The Annoyance in Chicago and toured internationally with The Second City. She founded the Chicago Musical Improv Festival and later served as Artistic Director and Director of Education at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. She performs and teaches across Europe and North America, produces shows and festivals, and recently founded the Amsterdam Comedy Studio.
More about Stacey: https://www.staceysmithcomedy.com/
About Steffen
At some point as a child, Steffen decided he wanted to make music, and he just never stopped. He studied audiovisual media and film music in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg, where he also took to the stage for the first time with the improvisational theater group Kanonenfutter. As an improv musician and coach, his career has since taken him from live shows to workshops and courses, and on to international festivals. Steffen is in his element wherever stories and music come together: when he’s not on stage or in a workshop, he writes music for video games (Anno 1800) or film and television (Habibi Baba Boom, Erlebnis Erde). He currently teaches improvised singing and musical theater at Die Affirmative Improv School in Mainz and Frankfurt, and developed the musical format “Glam!” with the Affirmative Ensemble.
More about Steffen: https://www.steffenbrinkmann.com/