Take your scene work to the next level and let's get ready for the stage! Learn how to create a strong foundation for a show, and a strategy to develop ideas for scenes, find the fun, and heighten it with your scene partner.  In this class you’ll dive deeper into the Kickstand Improv philosophy and start thinking critically about improv, all while learning new techniques to make rich and collaborative comedy.

We’ll dig deeper into “why” things are funny to us, how to develop and heighten comedic ideas as a team, and build trust and connection with your classmates on and off stage

*Kickstand's improv track is a five-level program followed by Advanced Study, where students can learn and apply their skills to different formats. Each week of class builds on the previous one, and each Level builds on the Level before.

*Level 3 includes 6 weeks of instruction with 2.5 hours of instruction each week and a class show!

INSTRUCTOR: Michael Zimmer

DAY / TIME: Saturdays 11- 1:30 PM (2.5 hours)

DATE RANGE: 6 weeks. 10/24, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/ 28
CLASS SHOW: Tue 12/8 8:30 PM *subject to change

LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97214

PREREQUISITE: Level 2 at Kickstand or teaching experience elsewhere

ABOUT MICHAEL ZIMMER
He/Him

Michael Zimmer is an actor, writer, and improviser from Portland, OR. After training at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in NYC he returned to find his comedy home in the Kickstand community. He performs regularly with his improv team Papa? (Westside Comedy Festival, VIIF) and irregularly with other teams (Del Close Marathon, Stumptown Improv Festival). He hosted the monthly character bit show They Came From The Bins!, wrote and performed three original shows with Portland sketch team Night Bus, and directed, wrote, and performed in the monthly sketch variety public access sensation Show Ridiculous (Open Signal). He can also be seen in the last season of Hulu’s Shrill as George.

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