Serious about leveling up your improv? Then it’s time to learn how to do a great Harold! Chicago’s famous long-form improv format. The Harold is the CrossFit of improv training. A full body-and-mind workout of essential skills focused on revisiting the core fun ideas you develop, heightening and exploring them using new scenes, and finding thematic and character connections that leave your audience wondering how the performers pulled it off. In this class, you’ll learn the techniques that make the Harold seem magical and peek behind the curtain of how to use an opening effectively, create second beats that keep your momentum going, and identify callbacks and connections towards the end of your show. *Game of the Scene is a concept essential to Kickstand’s philosophy; don’t worry, we’ll teach you!

*Kickstand's improv track is a four-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 4 includes 8 weeks of instruction with 2 hours of instruction each week and a class show!

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Schier

DAY / TIME: Saturday 11:00 - 1:00 PM (2 hours)

DATE RANGE: 8 weeks. 9/6, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25
CLASS SHOW: TBD *subject to change

LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214

PREREQUISITE: Level 3 at Kickstand 

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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