About Paula Dirkes

Paula Dirkes designs and delivers online or offline programs that get results! She spent 25 years in health education and corporate wellness and over 18 years as an entrepreneur. Paula combines her unique background as an improvisational theater actor and facilitator, her Masters Degree in Adult Instruction and Human Performance Improvement and over 25 years working with older adults to deliver innovative in-person senior improv games programs and virtual improv facilitator training programs that POP for her audience.

In 2019 she launched Vintage Improvisation Detroit to bring her love of improv games and older adults together through her unique brand of in-person, life enrichment programming in senior living facilities in metro Detroit.

In 2021-2022, she expanded her reach to improvisers around the world [via Zoom] who shared her interest in bringing joy to the senior population through her one-of-a-kind Senior Improv Games virtual training program.

In 2025 she completely updated her virtual training for improvisers to include all the latest industry information she has gathered so she can share the resources with you!

These interactive, content-rich virtual/videorecorded trainings are highly rated by participants and an excellent way to connect like-minded improvisers who have an interest in serving the senior population.

Paula is eager to assist you in enriching the lives of older adults in your community. The world is changing – let’s improvise!