Classes
Kristen Schier
GENRE DEEP DIVE
Intermediate / Advanced
4 classes, Wednesdays, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
June 4, 11, 18, 25
$135.00
Chapel Theatre Annex, 4117 SE Harrison, Milwaukie 97222
Learn to improvise in different styles/genres of theater so you can add variety and range to your scene work. In this workshop, you’ll explore Shakespeare, American Realism (Williams, Miller, Inge), and Absurdist plays (Beckett, Ionesco, Genet). Kristen will help you draw on the tropes, characteristics, and common themes inherent to each style and use them to create scenes that feel like they were written by a famous playwright.
Kerry Leek
SCENE WORK INTENSIVE
Advanced with performance experience
6 classes, Wednesdays, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
July 9, 16, 23, 30 + Aug 6, 13
$200.00
Chapel Theatre Annex, 4117 SE Harrison, Milwaukie 97222
Focus on honing your observational and listening skills, following patterns, and collaborative scene work. In this workshop series, Kerry will help you to tap into movement, rhythm, and monologues—with an emphasis on discovery over invention and connection and trust among players. If you were ever curious about learning the Brody style of patient and artistic play, this is a great place to start!
Kristen Schier is an actor, improviser, teacher, and clown. She holds a BFA in Performing Arts from the University of the Arts, where she taught Acting for Non-Majors, Improvisation for the Actor, and first-year Acting Studio. Kristen has toured across the United States and internationally, teaching and performing at festivals such as the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam, Rise Comedy Festival, Detroit Improv Festival, Seattle Festival of Improvised Theater, Chicago Improv Festival, Vancouver International Improv Festival, and many more. Kristen studied improv at Second City, Magnet Theater, and Annoyance and physical theater and clowning with Pig Iron Theater company and Movement Theater Studio.
Kerry Leek says that from the first moment she saw improv, she knew it was going to be her true love. Throughout her 20+ year tenure at the Brody Theater, she performed, taught, directed, and ran the education department, becoming a beloved teacher of countless Portland improvisers. Kerry has traveled and performed across the United States, Canada, and Europe and has been a proud member of groups including Broad Selection, The Narrows, Future Cool, and Nepotism. Kerry’s improv philosophy is very rooted in mutual respect, relationship-based scene work, and the sense that the audience sees more on stage than an improviser ever will.
OUR REFUND POLICY:
Bridge City Improv can offer a full refund of the class fee up to 5 days prior to the start date.
Thereafter, no refunds can be issued. Contact us at info@bridgecityimprov.com for more information.
