Improv Workshop
Instructor: Shulie Cowen
Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Studio, Hillside
Fee: $ 20 for members, $ 30 for non-members
Class limited to 20 students
With a focus on scene work, this class will help strengthen participants’ improv skills while making each other laugh! While this workshop is geared toward those with some experience in improv, all who love the art are welcome.
This class fills up quickly, so early registration is recommended.
Shulie Cowen teaches improv to kids, senior citizens, and everyone in between. After teaching at The Second City Hollywood and iO West for over 12 years, she now travels the USA and the world teaching acting and improv at festivals and schools. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, a former member of The Second City National Touring Company, and an original cast member of “School House Rock Live!”. Shulie studied improv at The Second City Training Center, The Annoyance Theater, and at iO Chicago with Del Close. She currently directs and performs in “Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!â” and with the improv team EST. Her acting credits include numerous guest appearances on television and in film and stage productions.
Class is limited to 20 students.
Register with Roanne Butier: [email protected]
Checks should be made out to DAOR and can be submitted at first class.
For questions about the class, email Stephanie Singer: [email protected].
Instructor: Shulie Cowen
Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Studio, Hillside
Fee: $ 20 for members, $ 30 for non-members
Class limited to 20 students
With a focus on scene work, this class will help strengthen participants’ improv skills while making each other laugh! While this workshop is geared toward those with some experience in improv, all who love the art are welcome.
This class fills up quickly, so early registration is recommended.
Shulie Cowen teaches improv to kids, senior citizens, and everyone in between. After teaching at The Second City Hollywood and iO West for over 12 years, she now travels the USA and the world teaching acting and improv at festivals and schools. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, a former member of The Second City National Touring Company, and an original cast member of “School House Rock Live!”. Shulie studied improv at The Second City Training Center, The Annoyance Theater, and at iO Chicago with Del Close. She currently directs and performs in “Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!â” and with the improv team EST. Her acting credits include numerous guest appearances on television and in film and stage productions.
Class is limited to 20 students.
Register with Roanne Butier: [email protected]
Checks should be made out to DAOR and can be submitted at first class.
For questions about the class, email Stephanie Singer: [email protected].
Working with a Director: Comedy Scenes
Lecturer: Julian Lopez-Morillas
8 Mondays, beginning September23
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Studio, Hillside
Full Class Fee: $ 80 for members, $ 100 for non-members
Plus $ 5 materials fee
Class limited to 10 participants
The workshop will focus on comic scenes from modern American and British theater. Participants will work with Lopez-Morillas, rehearsing brief scenes over the eight-week period, culminating in a presentation of work for an invited audience of family and friends. Memorization of scene material is recommended but not required. The final date of the eight sessions will be determined later because of scheduling issues.
Lopez-Morillas will draw material from diverse sources, such as Kaufman and Hart, Neil Simon, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Tom Stoppard, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers and the Monty Pythons. Participants will practice honing their scenes with a focus on clarity, pace, rhythm and the grounding of comedy acting in genuine human behavior and character.
Lopez-Morillas is a professional theater actor, director and teacher. He has performed and directed with all the major theaters in the Bay Area and across the country. He has taught acting, directing, theater history and Shakespeare at the University of California/Berkeley and at various colleges in the state.
For questions about the class or interview, email Stephanie Singer at [email protected].
To register for the class, email [email protected].
Tuition payment check is due and payable on the first day of class.
Lecturer: Julian Lopez-Morillas
8 Mondays, beginning September23
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Studio, Hillside
Full Class Fee: $ 80 for members, $ 100 for non-members
Plus $ 5 materials fee
Class limited to 10 participants
The workshop will focus on comic scenes from modern American and British theater. Participants will work with Lopez-Morillas, rehearsing brief scenes over the eight-week period, culminating in a presentation of work for an invited audience of family and friends. Memorization of scene material is recommended but not required. The final date of the eight sessions will be determined later because of scheduling issues.
Lopez-Morillas will draw material from diverse sources, such as Kaufman and Hart, Neil Simon, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Tom Stoppard, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers and the Monty Pythons. Participants will practice honing their scenes with a focus on clarity, pace, rhythm and the grounding of comedy acting in genuine human behavior and character.
Lopez-Morillas is a professional theater actor, director and teacher. He has performed and directed with all the major theaters in the Bay Area and across the country. He has taught acting, directing, theater history and Shakespeare at the University of California/Berkeley and at various colleges in the state.
For questions about the class or interview, email Stephanie Singer at [email protected].
To register for the class, email [email protected].
Tuition payment check is due and payable on the first day of class.