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Meisner for Improvisers with Sommer Austin
Saturdays 10AM - 1PM | The Crowd Theater | 3935 N. Broadway
|Course Description|
This is an acting class for improvisers, using an improvisational-based acting technique developed by the late great Sanford Meisner. Sanford Meisner said that, acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances. In our eight weeks together, we will work on the first half of that statement: living truthfully. Working through this series of innovative, step-by-step series of improvisational exercises will train you to be thoroughly responsive, emotionally alive, spontaneous, and absolutely grounded in the reality of what is happening at any given moment with any given person. These foundational exercises will get you out of your head and into being absolutely present to the world around you and the people with whom you share it.
|Schedule|
Below is the schedule for the class. All class will be held at the Crowd Theater from 10AM - 1PM unless otherwise notified.
2/18
2/25
3/4
3/11
3/18
3/25
4/1
4/8
|Teacher Bio|
Sommer Austin received a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa and an MFA degree in Acting from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she had the privilege of working with such theatre luminaries as Mary Overlie, Ping Chong, Dr. Jonathan Miller, and the late Billie Whitelaw. She is a certified Instructor of the Meisner Approach to Acting as trained by renowned author and master teacher Larry Silverberg, and is a co-founder/owner of Green Shirt Studio, a Meisner training center in Chicago, along with her husband, Andrew Gallant. She is alum of the improv and comedy writing programs at iO Chicago, as well as The Feminine Comique. She has studied stand-up comedy with the brilliant and hilarious Cameron Esposito, Patti Vasquez, Ever Mainard, and Cynthia Levin. Sommer is a founding member of The Agency Theater Collective, where she serves as Managing Director as well as acts and devises theatre. She appeared as an actor in The Agencys productions of Paradise Lost, Out of Tune Confessional: Volumes I, II, and III (which she also co-wrote), and most recently At the Center. She produces, emcees and does performance art at No Shame Theatre, every Saturday night via The Agency Theater Collective. As an actor, she has performed regionally at Riverside Theatre and Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, The Zachary Scott Theatre Center, and Esthers Follies. Chicago theatres include Red Tape Theatre, Hubris Productions, Bailiwick Theatre and Profiles Theatre. Featured performances as a stand-up comic include The Chicago Ladies in Comedy Showcase, the kates, The GoGo Show, You Are My Favorite (But Dont Tell Your Sisters), Just Dickin Around, the Chicago Womens Funny Festival, and Female Funnies at Zanies. Film work includes the Chicago feature films Sketch and Banana Season, as well as a myriad of independent short films. Sommer performed regularly as an improviser with the team The CEO of Everything at The Playground Theater in Chicago for 6 years and continues to improvise around the city. Assistant directing credits include the world premiere of David Rabes Good for Otto at The Gift Theatre, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton, and Annie Bakers The Flick at Steppenwolf Theatre, directed by Dexter Bullard. Directing credits include The Gift Theatres TEN 2016 and The Arc Theatres arciTEXT 2016, and The Agencys Jeff-recommended production of Chagrin Falls by Mia McCullough. She has taught at UW-Madison, The Theatre School at DePaul University, and Triton College, where she continues to teach as well as serve as the Artistic Director of Triton Theatre
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LocationThe Crowd Theater (View)
3935 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL 60613
United States
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