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Advanced Humanity w/ Chris George


Get Ready to Download into the Matrix - Sat Nov 9, 3-5PM

2 hr
50 US dollars
The Upfront Theatre

Service Description

Bleep, bloop. Are your scenes feeling lifeless, boring, and unpredictable? Or perhaps you find your work diverting into the strange, surreal, wacky, and silly unknown? Maybe you just feel disconnected from your scene partner and the agreed reality? Well keyboard cowboy, clear your cache, flash your ROM, and get ready to download (or upload, depending on your bandwidth) into the Matrix. This intermediate to advanced workshop is all about playing to the top of your humanity. Digging deep into the toybox of Chicago Improv Studio exercises and challenges, you'll find new playspace in worlds of uncomfortable silences, awkward co-workers, unhelpful employees, and the existential frustration of the banal. This is a great workshop for players who like slower play, more theatrical styles/forms, or want to upgrade their absurd game play for forms like Armando. After this workshop, you'll be ready to get on your stage and be the most human you can possibly be. Bleep, bloop. Chris George is an actor, improviser, and chemist from Chicago, IL and an apprentice of Bill Arnett. He is a graduate of the iO, Annoyance, CSz Advanced, CiC, and Chicago Improv Studio (CIS) training centers, and is a founder of the National Comedy Theater’s (NCT) Sunday Company, co-founder and former Assistant Artistic Director of Finest City Improv (FCI) (San Diego, CA), and the San Diego Improv Festival. He is a former faculty member of FCI and Sidestage Improv (later Old Town Improv Company, now Mockingbird Improv) and has been a guest instructor at NCT, Dallas Comedy Festival, Spectacles Improv Engine (Orange County, CA), Endurance Improv Festival (Madison, WI), Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI), Naval Justice School, University of Texas Dallas’ Advanced Improvisation Program, Longshot Theater Company (Biloxi, MS), Countdown Improv Festival, Kansas City Improv Festival, Palm Beach Improv Festival, San Francisco Improv Festival, Omaha Comedy Festival, Bridge Improv Theater (Tempe, AZ), and CIS. He is the director of Keystone, performing the Deconstruction in Chicago for almost two years. He is a former member of the Odd’s Bodkins Shakespeare Company; past roles include Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Antipholus of Ephesus (Comedy of Errors), Birowne (Love’s Labour’s Lost), and Banquo (Macbeth). He has written two plays, the mashup "A Weekend at Macbeth's" and the farce "Fakespeare".


Upcoming Sessions


Cancellation Policy

All sales are final. Please arrive at least 5 minutes prior to class start.


Contact Details

  • 203 Prospect St, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA

    3602008697

    info@theupfront.com


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