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ABC News Feature on Exuberant Theatre Company’s Pacific Beach San Diego Improv Classes

Are you an adult looking for a fun new hobby where you make friends and learn useful life skills?

Are you a social adult who is bored of awkward networking mixers, stuffy book clubs and overly-competitive sports leagues? Try an improv comedy class!

San Diego Improv comedy classes from The Exuberant Theatre Company provide a wildly fun and goofy time where adults can play with childlike abandon for a few hours each week. The health benefits of our improv classes at the Pacific Beach Recreation Center are vast and many are clinically proven! Practicing improv, you’ll enjoy:

Improved Confidence
Decreased Anxiety
Increased Self-Esteem
Better Public Speaking
Keener Sense of Humor

Your first class is free!

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And beyond the fantastic health benefits of practicing improv, you’ll be also exercising your creative muscles in a dynamic and constantly evolving art form: improvisational theatre. Join the likes of Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, Eddie Murphy and many more stars who got their start in improv!

You’ll be led by expert guides on your improv journey. The Exuberant Theatre Company (ETC) was founded by professional actor/director Sean A. Mulvihill (seen on NBC, ABC, FOX, MTV, RAI Italia, Amazon Prime, Sony Playstation, GSN, Comedy Central, CollegeHumor, and more). He founded ETC in 2018 with the mission to bring a professional-grade performing arts curriculum to aspiring actors. The company started in NYC and in 2023 moved to San Diego, California. Even with all that experience, our teachers are down-to-earth and approachable.

With our fun classes, friendly teachers and flexible class schedules, you can finally make the time to get back in touch with your creativity!

Simply sign up here for your first class–it’s FREE:

Free Improv Comedy Class in San Diego

Whether you’re experienced or new to improv comedy, you’ll have a great time while learning more confidence and public speaking skills at our weekly improv classes at the PB Rec Center in Pacific Beach San Diego, CA! If you haven’t tried a class with us before we invite you to take your first class free.

What’s so Great about Improv Comedy?

Check out our feature-length documentary film, ACT SOCIAL, which stars improv legend Colin Mochrie of WHOSE LINE IS IT, ANYWAY? ACT SOCIAL won the “Film Heals” Award at the 2021 Manhattan Film Festival. The film shows the health benefits of practicing improv and dives into the fields of applied improv and drama therapy.

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Lead Instructor

Hi, I’m Sean A. Mulvihill. I’m the Artistic Director of the Exuberant Theatre Company. We started out with a long-running improv comedy show at the Broadway Comedy Club and other NYC venues from 2018-2022. I moved to San Diego in early 2023 and am very excited to work with you. You can catch me performing improv around town at Mockingbird Improv (Team Broadway Unscripted) and Finest City Improv (Team Fjordache). I also put up scripted theater work at the annual San Diego International Fringe Festival (2024: Puppy Love).

I’ve been teaching acting and writing since 2001 and improv and sketch comedy since 2018.

I’ve been acting professionally since the age of 16 when I got my first summer stock musical theatre gig in Illinois. I was late to the first rehearsal because I failed my Math Analysis final. The teacher let me retake it on the following Monday after school ended. I got a C. Because of that C, I got into USC.

So, at age 18, I moved to Los Angeles and went to USC to get a BFA in Acting. I had my first exposure to improv training with the great Dan O’Connor and Eric Trulles, but unfortunately I was partying so much I don’t remember much about those classes. After graduation, I was a founding member of the acclaimed Blue House Theatre Company alongside present-day stars Patrick J. Adams and Chris Pine. I developed an interest in the mystic and at the age of 24 I made a feature film called Living Luminaries with my then-hero, Eckhart Tolle, the author of The Power of Now.

I went on to act professionally on many regional and international stages from Tuacahn Ampitheatre in Utah to the Venetian Macau. I’ve appeared on TV and streaming channels like: RAI Italia “Questo Nostro Amore”, CBS “Next”, GSN “Baggage” (a dating show hosted by Jerry Springer), Amazon Prime, and am the voice of a Sony PlayStation game called “Loading Human.” I got my MFA in Physical Theatre in Italy and lived there for four years during which I gained weight.

After Italy, I moved to NYC in 2017 and fell in love with improv. I studied at UCB, the Magnet, and the PIT. My studies led me to direct a feature film called ACT SOCIAL starring Colin Mochrie of “Whose Line is it, Anyway?” Colin was a good sport when we put him in an fMRI and looked at his brain while he did improv. The film won the “Film Heals” Award at the 2021 Manhattan Film Festival.

I’m a positive and motivating person and my teaching style is honest, practical, and fun. I look forward to helping you reach your goals!

Read some reviews for my performing and teaching at: https://exubs.com/reviews/