TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tami has worked with students of all ages from kids (Creative Arts of St. Tammany) to teenagers (OutYouth) to college students (Oberlin Improv Conference, HaHa Food Festival at University of Arizona) as well as hundreds of adults. Tami has taught improv consistently since 2006 as well as serving as director/co-founder of two successful improv training centers.

Tami has coached and directed workshops with many Austin improv student and performing troupes as well as working with groups nationally. She has taught workshops in Tucson AZ, Atlanta GA, Jackson MS, New Orleans LA, Covington LA, Baltimore MD, Philadelphia PA, Dallas TX, St. Louis MO, Myrtle Beach SC, Ashville NC and Oberlin OH.

TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Tami Nelson has studied comedy since 2003 and has been a full time performer and improv instructor since 2006. In addition to attending nearly every comedy festival in North America, she has studied improv with notable instructors from ImprovOlympic, The Second City, The Annoyance Theater and The Upright Citizens Brigade and was a recipient of the Chicago Improv Festival 9 Education Scholarship.

ABOUT TAMI NELSON
Since her arrival in Austin in 2005, Tami has worked diligently in the improv community to become one of Austin’s most notable improv talents. She has been recognized by The Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin Awards, The B. Iden Payne Awards, The Lone Star Sketch Fest, The Austin Improv Collective Awards and won Best of Fest at the 2008 Frontera Fest. In addition to her stage work, Tami has performed in videos and short films with Los Angeles based Studio8.net and with director Will Elliot, Winner of the 2007 SXSW Click Festival for Peterson’s Savings and Loan. In 2009 Tami made her Comedy Central debut with Studio8 (Atom TV) and was featured in an Intel commercial with iJustine (also produced by Studio8).  Check out some glowing testimonials about Tami!