Common Approach       Florian Bartsch       Caspar Schjelbred       Mark Jane

CASPAR SCHJELBRED [schjelbred.com]
Born in Denmark (1979), bred in Sweden, he grew up knowing absolutely nothing about improvisational theatre. He discovered it by chance in Paris (2000) and couldn't believe such a thing was possible or even allowed.

Soon after this amazing discovery, Caspar found himself improvising in public in the very first show of the Improfessionals (2001). Another few years down the road, he was invited to become a regular teacher at the Impro Academy (2005).

Always ready to hone his skills, Caspar continues taking workshops as often as possible, at home and abroad. He has taken workshops from luminaries such as Keith Johnstone (2003, 2004) and Mick Napier (2004), as well as from plenty of other top-notch teachers and performers from around the world. In 2007, he participated in the Loose Moose Theatre's International Summer School in Calgary, Canada.

In 2008 Caspar met the incredible Ira Seidenstein. Since then he has been training regularly in the Seidenstein Method, including the 3-week Quantum Clown Residency in Brisbane, Australia (2010). This has led to the development of Impro Supreme (July 2010), a groundbreaking concept for training in improvisational theatre, combining the Seidenstein Method with Keith Johnstone's theories of improvisation.
[See SCHJELBRED.COM for more information on Impro Supreme, and find out when the next workshop happens!]

Caspar has taught workshops in Finland (Tampere Improfest), Sweden (Mälardalen University), the Netherlands (Tripartite), Italy (La Sapienza - Rome University), Belgium (private organiser) and in Paris at the first IPAN Workshop Exchange (2009).

Before becoming a full time impro teacher/performer, Caspar divided his time between improvisation and the study of history, specialising in the history of psychology, or more precisely: the study of emotions at the end of the 19th century. He holds an M.A. in History of science from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris 1).