Acting! Comedy! Improvisation!
with Stephanie Merrow
Theater training to expand your creative potential
- Learn improvisation
- Overcome negative thinking & judgments
- Learn how to act by work on scripts and monologues
- Enhance creative problem-solving skills
- Learn to relax & let go
- Become more versatile in all parts of life
- Have Fun! Fun! Fun!
TIME & DATES:
High School from 6 to 7:30pm
Adults from 7:30 to 9pm
October 13, 20 & 27 and November 10, 17 & 24 and December 8 & 15Cost: $90 for the full 8 weeks. Drop in fee $15 per class.
Stephanie Lynn Merrow has an MA in Acting. She has performed with several improvisation and theatre troupes in Seattle, Oregon and California. Stephanie has been teaching and directing all ages since 1997 and has formal training in many forms of improvisation.
Gary Schwartz is a gifted player and coach. He has a thourogh understanding of my work." - Viola Spolin.
"Gary Schwartz was one of Viola's best students. I've had him in several workshops and find he's the best side-coach around. And that includes me." - Paul Sills
Who is Viola Spolin?
Acting for the theater evolves naturally out of playing. Recognizing this source of energy, famed educator/director/teacher Viola Spolin (regarded as the mother of American improvisation) applied the game form to theater disciplines and arrived at her widely acclaimed Spolin Theater Games technique.
What Are Spolin Theatre Games?
There are games to free the actor's tension, games to cleanse the actor of subjective preconceptions of the meaning of words, games of relationship and character, games of concentration - in short, games for each of the areas with which the growing actor is concerned.
The games also heighten sensitivity, increase self-awareness, and effect group and interpersonal communication.