THIS OPEN HOUSE IS FOR OUR BEGINNER LONG-FORM IMPROV CLASS WHICH STARTS SEPTEMBER 30TH...
Students will be introduced to the art of long-form improvisation by learning the key concept of “Yes, and..”. They will also learn important basic improv skills like: listening, creating characters, establishing relationships, exploring scenes with objects and environment work. Students will then combine these skills to create fully improvised scenes with a partner and discover how scenes can grow through agreement and support. The class will culminate in a live, fully improvised performance for families and invited guests.
Please read through our PHIT Kids & Teens - Terms and Conditions of Enrollment prior to enrolling.
INSTRUCTOR
Nick Gillette
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Nick Gillette is a physical theatre artist, a co-founder of Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, and an instructor at the Philly Improv Theater. He is a graduate of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, a 2014 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks resident artist, a 2016 Colgate University Christian A. Johnson resident artist, and currently a resident artist at the Philadelphia School for Circus Arts. With Almanac he has collaborated to devise and perform Communitas (2014), Nightfall (2014), The Fleecing (2015), Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes (2015), and Exile 2588 (2016). He has performed with Cabaret Red Light, BRAT Productions, Groundswell Players (now Lighting Rod Special), Pig Iron Theatre Co., Alex Bechtel, and the Philly Improv Theater.
You can see him at PHIT every third Saturday of the month in The Wadsworth Constant, an improvised absurdist one-act play.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT NICK
“He is very funny and very good at teaching.”
“He laughs a lot and gives good advice and criticism.”
WHAT PARENTS SAY ABOUT NICK
“Nick is an awesome, awesome instructor. He creates a very supportive, very warm atmosphere where kids feel comfortable letting loose.”
“Nick was awesome awesome and good good good.”
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Kristen Schier
ABOUT YOUR TEACHING ASSISTANT
Kristen Schier is the Artistic Director of The Philly N Crowd, which performs weekly shows at The Actor’s Center. Before coming to PHIT she taught improv for Delaware Theater Company, Drexel University, and The Actor’s Center.
Kristen has a B.F.A. in Theater Arts from the University of the Arts and has been working in Philly as a professional actor, improviser and teacher for several years. She has worked with Commonwealth Classic Theater Company, Shakespeare in Clark Park, and Ego Po. She has appeared in many productions including the originally created Art of War, which received a Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble.
Kristen has studied clowning intensively with Giovanni Fusetti and has studied improv at The Second City and at the Annoyance in Chicago and the Magnet Theater in NYC. She has taken workshops and classes with such improv notables as Michael Gelman, Jill Bernard, Armando Diaz, Asaf Ronen, Mick Napier, Susan Messing, Jonathan Pitts Joe Bill and Mark Sutton and members of the UCB Theater in New York City.