*Please note Kickstand has expanded it's Training Center. Level 4 is currently an expansion of the skills learned in Level 3 and Level 5 is now the Harold

Now that you're comfortable on stage, it’s time to really blossom as a performer and challenge yourself with new techniques, openings, and tools to level up your stage presence and theatricality. 

The class shifts your perspective from your own work to fully engaging with and supporting the ensemble.

Apply skills you have been learning to new openings, focus on choices that create clear, dynamic, and compelling scene work. Explore deeper physicality and lean into the trust and deep collaboration that builds not only hilarious but truly surprising improv comedy.

*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: Kristen Schier

DAY / TIME: Saturdays 11:00 - 1:30 PM (2.5 hours)

DATE RANGE: 6 weeks. 8/22, 8/29, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3 *skip 9/5
CLASS SHOW: Sun 10/11 7 PM *subject to change

LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97214

PREREQUISITE: Level 2 at Kickstand or teaching experience elsewhere

ABOUT KRISTEN SCHIER
She/Her
Kristen Schier is an actor, improviser, teacher, and clown. She has extensive improv teaching, directing, and performing experience. She holds a BFA in Theater Arts from the University of the Arts where she also taught Acting for Non-Majors, Improvisation for the Actor, and first-year Acting Studio. 

She has toured all over the country teaching and performing at various festivals such as the Seattle Festival of Improvised Theater, Chicago Improv Festival, Vancouver International Improv Festival, Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam, and more. Kristen is the former Co-Artistic Director of Curious Comedy in Portland Oregon and former Improv Producer at the Philly Improv Theater. She has studied improv at Second City, Magnet Theater, and Annoyance. Kristen has also studied Physical Theater, clown, extensively with Pig Iron Theater company and Movement Theater Studio. 

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Thanks again for your interest in classes at Kickstand! We cannot wait to meet you!