Our Mission

Unscripted heals, empowers, and connects our community through improv.

What we do

  • We teach and perform improv to increase access to improv for people who have been historically excluded from improv, specifically BIPOC communities and People of the Global Majority, older adults, disabled communities, youth, and anyone who has encountered a barrier to participate.

  • We teach improv classes and research the impact of improv practice on learning and teaching in education

  • We teach improv classes which leverage the joyful and supportive nature of improv for wellness and therapeutic applications

  • We say yes to bringing classes and performances into spaces which could be positively impacted by improv

Our values

  • Improv belongs to everyone - and no one

  • Our improv meets you where you are

  • We remain responsive to follow your lead as it takes shape for a specific space or community

  • More equity and access to improv means better improv

our story

Unscripted was born from the desire of Nashville’s Third Coast Comedy Club co-founders Luke Watson and Scott Field to serve the community beyond performances in the club’s theater. Emma Supica, an improviser and nonprofit arts educator in the community, signed on to serve as founding director of an organization which could deliver this vision. Supica dedicated her master’s thesis to learn more about the impact of improv as an applied art form, and set out to build Unscripted. 

We are...

  • professional improvisers, people who have never improvised, and all those in between

  • a community that knows life can be messy, unplanned, and unpredictable

  • open and accessible to as much of the community as possible

  • always learning more about the deeply rich practice of improv