Improv Made Easy - A Totally Different Approach to the Art of Play
This workshop will most likely be unlike any workshop you've ever taken. It combines Jet Eveleth's years of performing, training, and teaching into the very essence of the work. Jet takes her experience performing with and studying under masters around the world and creates a workshop that puts the most important lessons she has ever learned into a few hours. If you often feel stuck in your head, talking through scenes and not truly reacting, this course is for you. Created for performers who are looking to be more honest and active in their work. We will explore clown's relationship to improvisation with a focus on being present, finding emotional depth and a stronger stage presence. Get ready to let your brain unravel and your heart take the wheel. Much lower in cost it is designed to reach more people and the sheer numbers will serve as a catalyst for collaborative dreaming. Make no mistake, students will still receive one-on-one attention and insanely honest feedback.
Prerequisite: Improv 101
Day: Thursday
Dates: September 7th, 2017
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Please read through our terms and conditions of enrollment prior to enrolling.
INSTRUCTOR
Jet Eveleth
WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT JET
"Jet was an amazing instructor. She was positive, enthusiastic, and clearly passionate about improv. Her energy was contagious, and her encouragement and support had us all rolling on the floor with joy and abandon. I would definitely recommend Jet's workshops to other improvisors, and will seek out any chance I have to work with her in the future. Thanks, Jet!" -- "Jet was so enthusiastic and helpful! She has so much energy and positivity and knowledge. If she comes back to Philly, I will definitely take another workshop with her." -- "Jet's an incredible performer and an awesome teacher. Her workshop is well-structured - she balanced relevant talking points with specific exercises that were open-ended enough that they speak to many types of performance. Go Jet go!"
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jet Eveleth has been performing with the improvisational group The Reckoning at the iO Theater since 2001. She travels with the show "Adsit & Eveleth" with Scott Adsit of 30 Rock and the show "I Live Next Door To Horses" (Winner of Del Close Award for Best Scripted Show). She has performed at the Andy Kaufman Awards and was listed as New City magazine’s "Top 50 Players" in Chicago for 2010 and 2012.
Jet Eveleth recently created and played an original character in the show Absinthe at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, called the greatest show in Vegas history by Las Vegas Weekly. The Huffington Post described the show as "Risqué, dangerous and mind-altering... It is poetic, beautiful, inspiring and insulting. The greatest show on earth."
She developed the television pilots Ditch Mitchem, You Should Be Famous, Jet Across America (MTV) and most recently an original sketch pilot for NBC. You can hear her voice characters on the TV show Animals now in it's third season on HBO. Her film works includes American Legacy, One-Small Hitch and Close Quarters. In 2012 she toured Europe performing and teaching physical theater with The Second City and the US Embassy. She is faculty at The Second City Conservatory Program, iO Theater and was the former artistic director of the Chicago Improv Festival. She also created the curriculum and taught at Columbia College's Comedy Studies Program, where she also received her Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts.