This workshop will focus on basic scene work skills and using acting and emotion in improv scenes to heighten the comedy and performance.

Amy Ruffle is a comedian, actor, podcaster and producer. She is best known as an ensemble member on Ch 10’s Thank God You’re Here and as Sirena on the NETFLIX series Mako Mermaids. She was recently seen in ABC’s Urvi Went To An All Girls School and trained in improv at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, currently performing weekly in Melbourne with Something Good, the house improv show at the Comedy Republic theatre in Melbourne. Amy hosts The Shake It Up Show podcast for the Parkinson’s Foundation Shake It Up Australia, and performed her debut stand up show VAMPIRE at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in March this year.

Presented as part of the Bendigo Comedy Festival with support from the Ulumbarra Foundation, Comedy Victoria, and the Benefit Bendigo.