IMPROV CLASS POLICIES & FAQs

Although exceptions could be made depending on your improv experience, all students are highly encouraged to begin at Level 1 regardless of their past improv courses completed in the past.

• The Home Theater reserves the right to accept or deny an individual’s application.
• Participation in or completion of classes does not guarantee placement on a performance team.
• The Home Theater reserves the right to postpone or cancel a class if they do not reach a minimum number of students.
• Our instructors are working actors/improvisers. While we don’t anticipate having to change the instructor after registration ends, please be aware that this may happen from time to time.

Due to our limited class sizes, course placement isn’t guaranteed until payment has been received prior to the first day of class.

• We offer a *payment plan if you can’t pay the entire tuition upfront. You can put a deposit of at least half the full price of a class to secure your spot. Full balances are due by 5 pm, Friday, the third week of course. Any payments received after that time will incur a $25 late payment fee.
  (Payment plans are only for the Improv and Writing classes, not electives and workshops)
• Tuition for classes is half off once you have completed the level, as long as you’re repeating that level(s) within a year of originally having successfully completed that level.

If you cannot attend the class you registered for, we can roll your tuition to be used for a future term, transfer you to a class that has an available spot, or give you a refund, as long as you contact the Training Center 24 hours before the first day of the class you registered for. If you reach out after that, we cannot roll your tuition, transfer you to another class, or give you a refund.

• In order to encourage our philosophy of commitment to a group and an ensemble. students are allowed to miss no more than two classes in each 8 week session. (You may make up a class, but make-ups will still count as an absence.) If a student misses more than 2 classes throughout the course they are required to repeat the level before advancing to the next level.
• Students must contact the Training Center to notify us of an upcoming absence and request a make up class. (You are not allowed to try to make up a class unless it has been cleared with the Training Center.) Students repeating a level due to 3 or more absences do not qualify for the 1/2 price tuition. The 1/2 price “repeat” tuition is reserved for students who are repeating a level they have successfully completed.
• The Home Theater reserves the right to hold a student back or move them forward according to ability and need.

Your training center student ID grants you admission to almost every show at the theater for free, however, in the event that there are not enough seats for ticketed customers, you may be asked to give up your seat.

While no one is guaranteed a performance opportunity, our students will get opportunities throughout the year to perform on our stage via student and theater-run shows.
Following the completion of their last level, students have the chance to be chosen to become part of a Home ensemble.