About the Instructor
Joe Conto has been with Montreal Improv Theatre in Montreal, Quebec for 10 years. First as a student and then as a performer and instructor. He has taught all levels of experience as well as in classic improv formats such as Harold, Armando, Pretty Flower and Narrative. He has performed at festivals in New York City, Toronto, Ottawa, Boston, Burlington and Hartford, and has also competed and placed first in Montreal’s city-wide Threepio Competition. He has studied under improv notables Armando Diaz, Will Hines, Jill Bernard and Kirsten Rasmussen. Joe Conto continues to teach in Montreal while employed as the Department Chair of Business & Hospitality with Paul Smith’s College. Most recently, he has begun teaching improv in the tri-lakes area at both BluSeed Studios and Lake Placid Center for the Arts.