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Our Corporate Training Staff
Our teachers have hundreds or even thousands of ComedySportz shows and workshops
under their belts. Through our licensing organization, the World Comedy
League, we've exchanged ideas and training with the best improvisers and teachers across the United States and United Kingdom. Now, by adding membership in the Applied Improvisation Network, we've gotten even stronger through world-wide alliances. We're constantly improving our offerings, and we work with
amazing companies. We also have the business experience to back our activities up, make sense of them and relate them to your objectives.
ComedySportz workshop leaders are improv professionals from with
significant professional experience in:
- High Tech Sales
- Customer Service
- Small Business Ownership
- Information Services / Reference Librarian
- Human Resources / recruiting
- Product Design
- Branding
- Engineering
- Law
- Health Professions
- Education
- Purchasing and Accounting
- and more
Our Co-Owner and General Manager, Patrick Short, a 24-year veteran of ComedySportz, was involved in our very first teambuilding engagement with Apple in 1989. Patrick began using Applied Improvisation during graduate school, teaching elementary education candidates at the University of Wisconsin how to survive in the classroom. After receiving the MFA degree in Directing, Patrick moved into hi-tech marketing and then sales, assisting clients with their acquisition of manufacturing and distribution systems; this career allowed him the opportunity to learn how companies work - and sometimes don't work. He's taught our 101 Class, a beginning improv course, over 70 times - and has designed and led custom workshops for over 250 organizations. He even wrote the Corporate Workshops portion of our league-wide ComedySportz Manual.
Want some details about our team? Here's how we walk the talk: - ComedySportz-Portland has 45 team members; all came up through our workshop and Farm Team System. We've never had an audition.
- 6 of 12 founding members from 1993 still on the payroll
- Most players attend between 25 and 100 workshops a year. That's a lot of continuing education.
- 25 members of the team teach during the year.
- We've performed over 3600 shows and taught more than 1600 workshops since 1993 - in a business with an average lifespan of six months.
- We operate a profitable for-profit company - most theatres are not-for-profit and most teachers in our business are sole proprietors; we're putting our own training into practice - in our own company - every day.
Our whole team has soaked up approaches from a wide range of sources in Applied Improvisation and beyond; We've synthesized our methodology by serving hundreds of clients in many fields and by teaching each other within our group. We bring the appropriate people to work with your group, and we have
resources to draw upon both inside and outside our organization (nationwide and world wide).
Affiliations:
World Comedy League Applied Improvisation Network
Call us at 503.236.8888 or email portland@comedysportz.com.
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