Instructed by multi-improv duo partner, Kristen Schier, this conservatory class will explore various approaches to performing in an improvised duo. Are you in an improv duo and want to take this class together? Great! Sign up as a pair. Are thinking about registering stag? No worries! This class is designed to arm you with a particular set of skills that anyone can use in an improv duo whether their partner is in the class, or yet to be found. Who knows… maybe this class will also be a matchmaker. This class will end with a mix of four performances where your instructor will pair you with other students for duo sets.
Prerequisite: Improv 401 at PHIT
Day: Sundays
Dates: 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/10 and 9/17
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Graduation Show Date/Time: 9/23, 9/24, 9/30 and 10/1 @ 4:30pm
Theater Location: 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Class Location: Main Stage (First Floor)
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INSTRUCTOR
Kristen Schier
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
“Awesome instructor! Kristen was able to critique in a very pleasant way, while engaging the classroom.” — “Kristen is first-rate, with a good combination of formal knowledge and know-how.”
KRISTEN SCHIER
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.
When she is not on stage, Kristen is incredibly absent minded and susceptible to fraud.
