Meet our Team-building Team
What we do
Play with Fire Improv is here to facilitate your ideal team building, skill building, confidence building, laugh inducing, mind blowing improv workshop(s). Improv games and exercises improve communication & listening skills, presentation skills, leadership skills, thinking on your feet, creativity, and an overall sense of confidence.
Who we are
Cam ALGIE
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Cam is an improviser, teacher, coach, and communications trainer. He founded Play with Fire Improv where his classes have helped hundreds of people with their anxiety, and his corporate workshops have helped companies like Pfizer, Capital One, Doxim, Thomson Reuters, and Autodesk with team building, stress-reduction and communication.
He also developed Second City Toronto’s Improv for Anxiety Program, where he is Lead Facilitator & Instructor. In addition to teaching new skills, Cameron helps people understand the psychology behind why we do what we do.
He has been interviewed by the BBC, CBC, Marilyn Denis Show, The Carla Collins Show and several podcasts about how improv helps with mental wellness. As a performer he has toured North America, and now teaches online to people all over the world.
Ashley Seaman
Ashley is an Educator (B.Ed, OCT), TDSB Educational Partner, Improviser, and Expressive Arts Support Group Facilitator with experience in the mental health sector. She’s a faculty member at Bad Dog Theatre Company, and The Second City Training Centre where she has been teaching Improv to all ages for over 12 years.
Ashley also operates Y.A.Y. Improv Comedy, a company that delivers health-oriented Improv workshops to support youth & teens in having more inclusive and happy experiences in schools.
KEN HALL
Ken Hall is a Canadian Comedy Award Winner (Best Breakout Artist) and multiple CCA award nominee, including most recently, Comedic Artist of the Year.
He has appeared in numerous film and television roles including Netflix's THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY where he plays the lovable Herb and provides motion capture as the body of Pogo, and two seasons on TBS’s hit series PEOPLE OF EARTH.
Ken teaches Improv, Comedic On-Camera Acting, Clownprov, Mindfulness, and Public Speaking. He was awarded the Frank McAnulty Award for Faculty Instructor of the Year in 2019.
yitzi gal
Yitzi studied Drama Therapy in the Master’s Program at N.Y.U and Concordia University. He’s a faculty member of Toronto’s Second City Training Centre, in their Adult Improv, Longform Improv, and Improv for Anxiety programs. He also teaches longform improv at The Assembly.
Yitzi started studying improvisation at age 19, in the hopes of alleviating his considerable anxieties. He had no plans of making a career out of it, but quickly fell in love with improv, especially its capacity to help people with their mental health.
• Master of Arts, Drama Therapy, New York University/Concordia University
Play with Fire Improv is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.