September 29-October 31
"Improv Comedy"
6 Week In-Person Workshop
Award winning director
JEANETTE KNIGHT
teaches
IMPROV
Think you're funny now?
JEANETTE KNIGHT
teaches
IMPROV
Think you're funny now?
Get Your Improv On!
In this Improv course we will have a blast while exploring the primary tools for creating improvised scenes and developing full characters. We will explore the WHY of the scene and reinforce the basic concepts of improv:
In this Improv course we will have a blast while exploring the primary tools for creating improvised scenes and developing full characters. We will explore the WHY of the scene and reinforce the basic concepts of improv:
- The Power of Yes
- Strong active listening skills
- Ensemble Building
- Raising the stakes
- Being Specific
- Finding the humor in life, because the world needs a little more laughter right now!
Class Is Limited To 16 Students
DETAILS
Class Dates: Mondays, Sept 26 - Oct 31
Class Times: 6:30-8:30 pm
Class Location: Oceanside Theatre Company
217 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA 92054
Minimum Age: 18
Registration: $225
Class Dates: Mondays, Sept 26 - Oct 31
Class Times: 6:30-8:30 pm
Class Location: Oceanside Theatre Company
217 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA 92054
Minimum Age: 18
Registration: $225
JEANETTE KNIGHT - SAG/AFTRA/Actors Equity
/Director/Choreographer. Jeanette has played over thirty roles, ranging from Rose in The Woolgatherer at the Tony award winning Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, to Shen Te/Shui Ta in Brecht’s Good Person of Szechuan to Roberta in Going to a Place Where You Already Are. But her most demanding role was Louise in Always, Patsy Cline, which played to sold out audiences in 2011 and 2013. From 1997-2006, she was the Education Program Director for the McCallum Theatre, supervising a faculty of fourteen teaching artists and helping coordinate and judge the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare Competition. She served as the Executive Director for the Beaumont Actors Studio. She has been teaching acting and directing at the Idyllwild Arts Academy since 2006, where she directed several highly lauded productions. Other theaters/venues she has directed for include the Indian Wells Theatre, Arthur Newman Theatre, Palm Canyon Theatre, Truckee Meadows Community College, Brewery Arts Center, Coachella Valley Repertory and the Green Room Theatre, directing Hamlet. In 2014, as Artistic Director for the Indio Performing Arts Center, she conceived of and carried out the first Coachella Valley Improv Festival, which has been re-branded as the Joshua Tree International Improv/ Comedy Festival, now in its fifth year. In 2017, she received the Most Inspirational Award from the Desert Theatre League.
/Director/Choreographer. Jeanette has played over thirty roles, ranging from Rose in The Woolgatherer at the Tony award winning Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, to Shen Te/Shui Ta in Brecht’s Good Person of Szechuan to Roberta in Going to a Place Where You Already Are. But her most demanding role was Louise in Always, Patsy Cline, which played to sold out audiences in 2011 and 2013. From 1997-2006, she was the Education Program Director for the McCallum Theatre, supervising a faculty of fourteen teaching artists and helping coordinate and judge the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare Competition. She served as the Executive Director for the Beaumont Actors Studio. She has been teaching acting and directing at the Idyllwild Arts Academy since 2006, where she directed several highly lauded productions. Other theaters/venues she has directed for include the Indian Wells Theatre, Arthur Newman Theatre, Palm Canyon Theatre, Truckee Meadows Community College, Brewery Arts Center, Coachella Valley Repertory and the Green Room Theatre, directing Hamlet. In 2014, as Artistic Director for the Indio Performing Arts Center, she conceived of and carried out the first Coachella Valley Improv Festival, which has been re-branded as the Joshua Tree International Improv/ Comedy Festival, now in its fifth year. In 2017, she received the Most Inspirational Award from the Desert Theatre League.
