Bobbi Block has been performing, teaching, producing and directing Improvisational Theatre in the Philadelphia area for over 20 years. She is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director and performs with the critically-acclaimed unscripted theater company Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater (tongue-groove.com). In addition to their monthly shows and Fringe Festival appearances, Tongue & Groove was invited to perform at the Kimmel Center for PIFA Festivals 2011 & ‘13. Bobbi has taught her signature Actors’ Improv ™ approach throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand, where she directed her popular show, SECRETS, for the New Zealand Fringe Festival. Bobbi received a Philadelphia City Paper Choice Award,“Actress who will lead Improv to the Promised Land.” Bobbi conceived and directed LEAP: The Actors’ Improv Experiment, for the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. For 15 years, Bobbi was the Co-Producer and Education Director of the Barrymore Award-winning improvisational theatre company, ComedySportz Philadelphia (comedysportzphilly.com), and was Artistic Director of the company for two years. In addition, Bobbi performed longform improv for 12 years with LunchLady Doris, and performs with the interdisciplinary improvisational theatre company, Playback Philadelphia. In addition to her theatrical career, Bobbi founded, choreographed and performed with the body percussion troupe, P3: People Percussion Project, and is a percussionist with the Brazilian samba band Unidos da Filadelfia. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Bobbi got her Masters degree in Theatre from Villanova University, and has since trained with master improvisers in Chicago, NYC and LA. Bobbi has taught improv at the University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, Bucks County Community College, the Wilma Theatre, the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, ComedySportz, Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) and private classes. She currently teaches Improvisation at Temple University, Drexel University, and the University of Otago in New Zealand. As a Communications Skills Consultant, Bobbi has traveled the world using acting, improv and theatre techniques to train corporate executives in leadership and team development skills (bobbiblock.com)