This Play class is for the improviser by a former improviser who became interested in play and then realized all play is improvising is playing. We will be using as the basis for this investigation of play: commedia, clown, body, games, movement, maybe even a little melodrama and definitely some other stuff that's not really codified into any respectable form of pedagogy. We'll try as best we can to adapt these kinetic things to Zoom! And if we fail, even better.

Bio:

I got into clown through various clown teachers: 500 Clown, Blake Montgomery/The Building Stage, John Towsen, Ronlin Foreman, Voki Kalfayan & Jonathan Taylor & Anais Thomassian and John Gilkey. I was a founding member of John Gilkey's Wet The Hippo ensemble and an early teacher for his Idiot Workshop. Improv: studied at Second City Conservatory in Chicago, IO West, was an early member of Happy Gas Improv (co-founded by Colin Thornton!). Directed some things at various places ... performed a bunch of shows in Las Vegas for Spiegelworld....co-helmed a Cirque du Soleil show for exactly one week. I am currently on faculty at Dell'Arte International in Blue Lake, CA.