Classes
Saturday May 8, 2010
11am - 1pm
Salvage Vanguard Theater Main Stage 2803 Manor Rd (map/directions)Amanda Rountree: Keepin It Real
This workshop will help deepen your performance with the use of sincerity, emotional connection, and believability. Discover the real "first offers" of every scene, and make improv even more natural, playful, and invigorating than it was before. Gain richness in your humor and a more dynamic connection with your audience. How can your life be explored, translated, or applied in an improv performance? Come, find out! Class size limit = 20
$25
Amanda Rountree
has been performing improvisational theatre professionally since 1992, teaching since 1998, and directing since 2002. She relocated to Chicago in 2007 from Seattle where she was a performer and instructor with Unexpected Productions and a performer and co-artistic director of Playback Theater Northwest. Amanda has entertained audiences in seven countries and countless North American cities utilizing a wide variety of styles, disciplines, and formats. (She's performed everything from improv games in Kentucky and improvised Shakespeare at the Colorado Shakes Fest to drama therapy in Japan and breakthrough formats in Germany). Chicago audiences have seen her in Impress These Apes 2, Damascus Steel, Don't Spit the Water, Soiree DADA: Shmukt die Hallen, and The (Edward) Hopper Project. In addition to being a company member of WNEP Theatre, she can be seen performing her original solo pieces around town, with The Beast Women Cabaret, This Much is True Storytelling, and The Kates. She is a resident teaching artist for Lifeline Theatre, Pegasus Players, and the Second City Training Center and has directed for Theatre Momentum. Her one-woman show, The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey opened in Chicago last fall and is currently on tour.
1pm - 4pm
Salvage Vanguard Theater Main Stage 2803 Manor Rd (map/directions)Carolyn Castiglia: Rhyme Time with CKC
In this workshop, Carolyn will facilitate improvisational exercises that will boost the attendee's ability to both think and rhyme on their feet. She will help workshop attendees to trust the creative process and work with their initial ideas without editing, censoring or judging themselves. Attendees will learn that, like in any form of improv, embracing mistakes while freestyling is key to staying in the moment and that "failure," when treated the right way, can actually be spun into a major win. By the end of the session attendees will form groups and write, perform (and possibly record) a music video!
$30
Carolyn Castiglia
is a stand-up comedian and freestyle rap star. You may have seen her on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Nick-at-Nite's Funniest Mom in America 3, The Maury Show, ABC World News with Charles Gibson and heard her on Sirius/XM Radio. She is perhaps best known for her appearances on VH1/ego trip's The White Rapper Show and Miss Rap Supreme as the lovable and hilarious Miss CKC. Her funny freestyle has won her numerous championship titles at The BEATdown, a monthly showcase at New York's UCB Theatre. Her comedic hip-hop videos, Lemme See and DAMN (You Wish) both hit number one in 23 countries on YouTube Comedy and DAMN (You Wish) was just nominated for an ECNY Award in the Best Short Comedic Film category.