Actor/comedian and retired U.S. Air Force medic, BJ Lange (MTV, Dr. Phil, Jimmy Kimmel Live) will lead a three-hour workshop designed for general audiences and civilians. In this active, hands-on workshop, attendees will laugh with friends and gain some of their childhood playfulness back while engaging in theater games designed to build confidence and strengthen life skills such as team-building, listening, problem-solving, and risk taking by using the fundamentals of improvisational theater. Students, faculty and staff are invited to actively participate or drop by and observe the session as their schedules allow.

This workshop is part of the Webster Student Veterans Organizations "Laughing at Life's Challenges" events.

Lange is the comedy coach for the Air Force Wounded Warrior program where he teaches wounded, ill, and injured service members (and their caregivers) the benefits of applied improvisation in the AFW2 Resiliency Program. In the past two years, his life was flipped upside down following a med board while on active orders. He is a two-time testicular cancer survivor (and comedian) who attacks adversity with the skills of applied improv and comedy to help cope. Lange is a graduate of and teacher at The Second City Hollywood Conservator Program, is an alumni of iO West and Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Los Angeles, and has studied at The Groundlings Theater. He currently leads the Second City Hollywood's Improv for Veterans Program.