Upcoming Courses
Level 1

Intro to Improv

Intro to Improv

Intro to Sketch

Intro to Improv
Level 2 & 3

Truth of the Scene

Truth of the Scene

Game of the Scene

The Harold

Game of the Scene
Level 4/Advanced Study/Electives

Advanced Forms: The Monoscene (with Carl Clancy)

Advanced Forms: The Movie (with Josh Telson)
Upcoming Workshops
Das2023: Play By Instinct
There are too many shoulds in improv! Let's learn to relax and do what you think you'd do. What's your gut instinct telling you? In this workshop we'll learn how...
Das2023: Make Things Worse
Suffering is bad in life but in improv comedy scenes suffering makes everything funnier. Learn how to "make things worse" while still keeping the scene feeling real. Bring out your...
Das2023: Hosting, holding space and having a great time
This practical and interactive workshop will explore how to ensure you are equipped to create a space where people can have fun. We will look at: Bring something to write...
Das2023: Callbacks & Connections
A good callback or connection can bring down the house, or help you blow out your game in new, fun ways. We’ll work on callbacks & connections, game, point of...
Das2023: Close Quarters
Close Quarters is a long form that was born in the nineties by an improv group out of Chicago. The original production ran for four months at The Second City...
Das2023: Framing the Game
Don't worry about the story. Focus on the unusual behavior. We'll do a few simple exercises to call attention to things that are unusual. We'll practice some simple "framing" techniques...
Das2023: Improv Confidence Boost
Many of us feel like we do a different type of improv when we’re under the pressure of a show or an audition - maybe we freeze up, have trouble...
Das2023: JTS Brown
JTS Brown was a legendary Chicago experimental longform improv team founded in the late ‘90s by Jason Sudeikis and Ike Barinholtz. Their signature self-titled form is designed for a large...
About Us
The CCB Training School offers instruction in a wide range of improv & sketch comedy.
Our courses and workshops provide a safe, fun, and nurturing space for students to explore their inner creative side and, of course, discover their comedic selves.
We provide an alternative voice for improv in the German “Hauptstadt,” borrowing our philosophy from Del Close and the North American approach. We teach trust, support and truth. And we believe Germans can be funny.
Instruction is offered in native English and German for students spanning all experience levels. Our instructors have a wealth of experience and have trained with UCB, CSz, iO, L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and more importantly, have formed their own ethos right here in Berlin.
All courses end with a student show to demonstrate everything you’ve learned. We train students for the stage and it is our promise to make you “performance ready” by the end of the course.
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FAQ
Please be sure to read our Terms & School Policies!
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Specific course requirements and prerequisites can be found on individual course pages.
Students must be respectful to their fellow students and course instructors, and adhere to our Student & Teacher Code of Conduct and our Community Code of Conduct.
We don’t offer test classes or auditing, but we encourage prospective students to join our weekly open improv jam and to come to House team shows on Friday nights to get an idea of what we’re doing and who we are. This is a great way to meet us and current and former students, as well as join in the CCB community.
Yes! All of our core courses end with a student showcase, free to the public, at Comedy Café Berlin, where students will perform what they’ve learned for family & friends.
Yes! All currently enrolled students get free students tickets to any improv show at CCB for the duration of their class.
Yes but… we require students to attend at least 6 of the 8 course sessions in order to pass the course and continue taking higher level courses with us. In addition, students may not be more than 15 minutes late to 4 out of 8 classes in order to pass.
If you know you’ll miss more than 2 classes, we strongly recommend you do not register as you’ll simply not get enough out of the course and you’ll be required to retake the course in order to continue taking courses with us.
We do not offer make-up classes for missed classes. Students are added to a Google Group for their course and can message fellow students for notes about missed classes, but please keep in mind that no one is under any obligation to respond.
Sometimes. We allow course prerequisite exemptions on a case by case basis, but please keep in mind that we rarely grant exemptions. We teach a very specific style of long form that is relatively unique in Europe. We lay the foundation for that in our Intro course and we’ve found that students who have received training at other schools that focus on short form ‘impro’, status and narrative are often at a disadvantage when skipping Levels, in addition to slowing down the progress of other students.
Our courses and workshops are capped at 16 students max; some courses and workshops have a lower class size – these will be noted in the event description.
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Corporate Training
Berlin’s premiere English-language improv training school is proud to offer workshops & courses for your company or event!
We work directly with teams and tailor to your specific needs. Whether you need to jump-start innovation and creative ideation, bring teams closer together, relieve inhibitions among new team members or just want to have some fun, we’ve got your back!
Our instructors have years of experience teaching, performing and innovating improv.
Send a message and we’ll get the ball rolling.