Teen Improv Camp at Buffalo Improv House!

Our curricular design team

Dan Reitz, Ed.M.: Dan is the founder and creative director of Buffalo Improv House, a lifelong educator, and a certified New York State teacher with over a decade of experience teaching music and performing arts to students in grades K-12. He taught music and drama classes at the Bank Street School for Children and the Collegiate School in New York City, and has taught improv comedy to dozens of school groups via the American High School Theater Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. He travels the country as a guest improv comedy teacher at high schools and colleges, and is a father to two silly girls. He has a masters degree in education from the University at Buffalo, where he specialized in performing arts pedagogy and curricular design.

Annie Moor: Annie is an improviser, visual artist and early childhood educator. She taught art and music classes at the Childrens Museum of the Arts in Manhattan. Originally from Southeast Texas, Annie attended Walnut Hill School of the Arts for high school in Natick, MA, and later received her BFA from NYU Tisch Film & TV, focusing on animation and creative writing. Annie is co-owner of Buffalo Improv House with her husband Dan, and is so excited for the vibrant improv community that is growing here in Buffalo! You can see her improvising with the Faculty, Various Factors Musical Improv, and the HaHa Show at BIH, and Unscripted (the 2-act improvised play) at Road Less Travelled Productions. You can find her full portfolio of illustrated products and custom work at anniemoorillustration.com. When not doing all of those things, she’s chasing after her young daughters and making weird jokes to playground moms!