Peformance Series
Learn what it’s like to be on a long-form improv team! In this eight-week course, you will go from audition to performance, learning how to collaborate, innovate, and take direction. This class focuses learn the basics of one of the mainstays of improvisation: The Harold. The Harold is a 25-45 minute long show based on a single suggestion which the improvisers explore through scenes, monologues, games, and really anything that comes into their head.
Throughout this course, you will form a team of improvisers and create your own version of this classic format, which you will then perform on the stage of the Historic University Theatre for a 3-week engagement. The class is divided into two sections: a 5-week training course, and a 3-week rehearsal process.
At the end of the class, you will be a part of an improv team that has its own show, ready to perform at any location. You’ll leave the program with footage from your shows that you can use to help land your next show! If you are ready to take the leap into improvisation head-first, then this class is for you!
We currently do not have the next session of the Performance Series scheuduled. We are hoping to run it again in Fall 2008. If you are interested in receiving notification about the next session,click here to fill out the form and you will be placed on a notification list.
Where: |
Rehearsals at Theatre Puget Sound, located on the 4th floor of the Center House, Seattle Center. Performances at The Historic University Theatre. |
When: |
There is currently no session scheduled. Potentially in Fall 2008. More details TBA. |
Who: |
Admission to the Performance Series is by audition only. Improv 101, 201, and 301 are storngly recommended, but not required. Classes will be taught by Ian Schempp and Andrew McMasters. |
Cost: |
Classes are $250. Please contact education@jetcityimprov.com if you are interested in scheduling an audition. |
For more information:
Click here to fill out the form or - Call the Wing-It Productions office: (206) 352-8291 - or email us at education@jetcityimprov.com
Ian Schempp has been improvising for 10 years. In this time, he has been a member and director of Without a Box--the Claremont Colleges' improvisational and experimental theatre group, a member of Sisters of Sal--the winningest team in Seattle CageMatch, and a member of many Wing-It Productions' shows including Jet City Improv, Twisted Flicks, and Election Show 2004. He has taught high school classes at the HUT, as well as been private coach for several high school improv troupes, including Bishop Blanchett HS and Newport HS. He has studied under Joe Bill and Mark Sutton of the Annoyance Theatre as well as Jill Bernard of Drum Machine and Karen Wight of Imp.
Andrew McMasters is originally from Philadelphia where he received an undergraduate degree in theater from Temple University. He worked in casinos in Atlantic City doing walk around entertainment and event production. He relocated to Seattle in 1990, and began improvising with Train of Thought, where he met Mike Christensen. In 1992, Mike and Andrew founded Jet City Improv in a small art studio in Pioneer Square. Andrew received his MFA in drama from the University of Washington in 1995 and worked shortly in NY. He returned to Seattle and Jet City Improv, and joined with Mike to create Wing-It Productions in order to help take Jet City Improv further. He is the Artistic Director of Wing-It Productions, the executive producer of the Seattle Festival of Improv Theater, and is on the board of Theater Puget Sound. Andrew can be seen working as a professional actor in Seattle in TV, film and stage productions.
Jet City improv brings a higher plane of comedy to the northwest with weekly improv shows as well as workshops and performances for schools and businesses. Jet City Improv provides a unique show, blending family appropriate humor with edge-of-your-seat comedy.
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