Want specific feedback on your scene work? This is the class for you! Over four weeks, we’ll work on scenes and exercises designed to challenge you and help you grow as an improviser. You’ll receive side-coaching and personalized notes, with plenty of room to focus on the skills you want to develop. This class is largely student-directed, giving you the opportunity to identify your goals, take risks, and dig into the areas of your improv you’re excited to strengthen.

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Schier

DAY / TIME: Saturdays 11 - 1:30 PM (2.5 hrs)
DATE RANGE: 4 weeks.11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5 *skip 11/28

LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214 (ADA Accessible)

PREREQUISITE: Level 3 at up 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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