All levels · Danforth, Toronto
Improv classes in Toronto.
Learn improv on the Danforth at SoCap, Toronto's east-end comedy hub. Choose a single drop-in night or a multi-week course. No experience needed. Just a room of people learning to think faster, listen better, and laugh harder.
Drop-ins from $25 · 154 Danforth Ave · steps from Broadview & Chester
The classes
Improv classes for every level.
Whether you've never set foot on a stage or you've been playing for years, there's a way in. Most people start with a drop-in, then move into a program when they're hooked.
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Drop-in classes
Try improv for a single night. Show up, play, and find out why people keep coming back. No experience and no multi-week commitment required.
All levels · From $25 / night
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Improv courses
Multi-week terms with the same group, from Fundamentals through to advanced scenework. Build from your first scene toward confident, fast improv.
Beginner to advanced · Per term
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Find your levelWhy SoCap
Toronto's friendliest place to learn improv.
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Built for beginners
You start in the group doing simple exercises. You are never put on the spot or expected to be funny. Almost everyone walks in nervous and leaves grinning.
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Working comedy faculty
You learn from teachers who actually perform and run shows in Toronto, not from a textbook. They have real empathy for first-timers.
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Easy to reach
154 Danforth Ave is a short walk from Broadview and Chester on Line 2, with easy access from Riverdale, Leslieville, the Beaches, and downtown.
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A stage when you're ready
SoCap runs live improv and comedy most nights, so there is always somewhere to watch the form and somewhere to play once you are ready.
The teachers
Taught by the people who built the room.
These aren't random instructors hired to fill a schedule. They're the people who shaped improv in this city — and they're the ones in the room with you.
Ralph MacLeod
Co-founder, Bad Dog Theatre
Ralph helped build Bad Dog Theatre, Toronto's most established improv institution, and has spent decades putting nervous first-timers at ease. He has an uncanny ability to calm people the moment they walk in.
“Forget about the outside world for the next two hours, all that matters is right here in front of you.” ~Ralph
Lisa Merchant
Teacher & director
Lisa is a favourite among Toronto improvisers and the kind of teacher people come back for. She's direct, warm, and very good at getting a room of strangers to trust each other by the end of the night.
From people who showed up scared
Everyone was terrified. Then they weren't.
I almost didn't go in. I sat in my car for ten minutes. By the end of the first class I'd forgotten I was nervous — I was just having fun with a room full of strangers.
I'm not a funny person and I told them that on day one. Turns out that's not the point. Nobody's trying to be funny. You just play, and the funny takes care of itself.
I expected to be the worst one there. Everyone else was just as scared as me. That's the thing nobody tells you — it's the most supportive room I've ever been in.
The venue
It's a walk-up on the Danforth. It's not fancy.
Let's be honest about where you're coming. SoCap is a walk-up on the Danforth, second floor, and it's not fancy. The wallpaper has seen things. The stage is close enough to make you nervous.
That's the point. This isn't a corporate training centre with branded lanyards and a motivational poster in the lobby. It's a real room where real teachers have been doing this for a long time. You'll feel it the second you walk up the stairs.
Where
154 Danforth Ave, 2nd floor
Toronto, ON M4K 1N1
Getting here
Short walk from Broadview & Chester stations on Line 2
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