[BATA] Three Week Improv Scene Work Intensive Actors and Improvisers

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:41:57 EST

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Improv Scene Work Intensive

Spend three weeks brushing and and honing your improv acting skills with one

of the Bay Area's leading improv actors and instructors: Doug Kassel.

Doug's scene lab will help improvisers and actors reach the truth in their

characters. Using the theater exercises developed by Viola Spolin, your work

will reach new heights of realism and depth. This short three week class

provides the perfect chance to take your skills to the next level. Whether

your a seasoned improviser/actor or someone that is ready to move beyond

the basics-this class will provide give you the chance to grow your skills

and while having fun.

You'll focus on the elements critical to any well performed scene:

1)What is important?

2)Why is it and important?

3)Why should the audience care?

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE=E2=80=A6

That=E2=80=99s what it=E2=80=99s all about! Make your scene work more varied=
, interesting,

and successful. Work better with your scene partner, make stronger choices,

and break bad habits.

In this improvisational scene workshop, you=E2=80=99ll perform improvised sc=
enes and

get immediate feedback. The main focus will be on open scene work.

The workshop is taught by 30-year improv veteran Doug Kassel (see below) and

is open to actors with prior improv/acting experience looking to take their

art to the next level.

For more information visit:

http://www.pantheater.com/AdvancedImprov.htm

Space is limited!

Pan Theater can be reached at

pantheater@aol.com or (510) 393-4146

DOUG KASSEL studied at Chicago=E2=80=99s Second City with Viola Spolin, auth=
or of

the ground-breaking theater-games book, Improvisation for the Theater. Doug

has more than 30 years of experience in improvisational theater. He

performed with Spolin=E2=80=99s Playmakers, The Game Theater, and Paul Sills=
=E2=80=99 Story

Theater, and he studied the work of Del Close, creator of the seminal

long-form piece =E2=80=9CThe Harold.=E2=80=9D Doug was a founding member and=
 Creative

Director of San Francisco=E2=80=99s longest-lived improvisational theater co=
mpany,

Flash Family, as well as Workshop Director for two episodic long-form cult

hits, =E2=80=9CLiquid Soap=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CEmotional Hospital.=E2=80=
=9D Doug has also directed

countless student companies at ImprovWorks. Since 1982, he has taught with

Cliff Osmond, Drama Studio London/ USA, Sue Walden & Co., and Kids on
Camera, among others. Doug has numerous regional and national acting
credits.

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