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Power Improv MASTERCLASS
with Joe Bill and Mark Sutton (BASSPROV) Friday, February 22 2:00pm - 5:00pm (*For Improvisers with Intermediate Experience) |
About the Workshop
This workshop is for Improvisers of all experience levels. Joe and Mark will share with you some tools that they use that will help you make powerful choices in any context in which you find yourself improvising. The first tools for getting yourself into a place of vitality for yourself and connectivity with your scene partners. Then they'll give you tools to forward scenes, games & stories all the way through to an ending that is compelling for both you and your audience. This workshop will also include some individual and group diagnostic and feedback, especially around issues that are constraining you or putting you into your head. |
About Joe and Mark
Joe Bill is one of the co-founders of Annoyance Theater, where he performed in and directed over 50 productions from 1987-2000, including smash hits “Co-ed Prison Sluts”, “The Real Live Brady Bunch” and “The Screw Puppies”. Bill has coached and performed with numerous ensembles at iO from 1985-1987 and 1995-present. Highlights include Georgia Pacific and the innovative lights out long-form, “The Bat”. He currently performs with the improv supergroup Weasilicious and co-stars with fellow Annoyance co-founder Mark Sutton, in the nationally touring production “Bassprov”, which headlined the 2003 Chicago Improv Festival with special guest Fred Willard. “Bassprov” has toured the United States since 2002, and also was named one of the top 10 comedy shows in Toronto in that same year. Bill teaches improvisation for iO, the Second City Conservatory and Training Center, the Annoyance, the Playground and around the U.S., Canada, UK and Netherlands. He started doing improv in 1977.
Mark Sutton has been acting, directing and teaching in Chicago since 1987. He is a founding member of The Annoyance and has appeared in more than 75 Annoyance productions including Co-ed Prison Sluts, The Real Live Brady Bunch and Manson: The Musical. Annoyance directing credits include Pigs is Pigs: A White Trash Musical and Marry Me You Idiot. He also served for more than nine years as The Annoyance’s managing director and since 1993, has been a member of its faculty. Mark has appeared at IO Theater with the renowned improv group Georgia Pacific and is a performer and facilitator for The Second City where he is also a former director of the National Touring Company and directed the Canadian premiere of Co-ed Prison Sluts for Second City Toronto. Sutton is also an influential voice in the improv community across the United States and Canada. From 2005-2009, he served as the Artistic Director of The Chicago Improv Festival, and throughout the past decade, he has been a featured instructor in dozens of national improv and comedy festivals. His award-winning comedy BASSPROV (co-created with Joe Bill) has been seen in 30 cities in North America.
Joe Bill is one of the co-founders of Annoyance Theater, where he performed in and directed over 50 productions from 1987-2000, including smash hits “Co-ed Prison Sluts”, “The Real Live Brady Bunch” and “The Screw Puppies”. Bill has coached and performed with numerous ensembles at iO from 1985-1987 and 1995-present. Highlights include Georgia Pacific and the innovative lights out long-form, “The Bat”. He currently performs with the improv supergroup Weasilicious and co-stars with fellow Annoyance co-founder Mark Sutton, in the nationally touring production “Bassprov”, which headlined the 2003 Chicago Improv Festival with special guest Fred Willard. “Bassprov” has toured the United States since 2002, and also was named one of the top 10 comedy shows in Toronto in that same year. Bill teaches improvisation for iO, the Second City Conservatory and Training Center, the Annoyance, the Playground and around the U.S., Canada, UK and Netherlands. He started doing improv in 1977.
Mark Sutton has been acting, directing and teaching in Chicago since 1987. He is a founding member of The Annoyance and has appeared in more than 75 Annoyance productions including Co-ed Prison Sluts, The Real Live Brady Bunch and Manson: The Musical. Annoyance directing credits include Pigs is Pigs: A White Trash Musical and Marry Me You Idiot. He also served for more than nine years as The Annoyance’s managing director and since 1993, has been a member of its faculty. Mark has appeared at IO Theater with the renowned improv group Georgia Pacific and is a performer and facilitator for The Second City where he is also a former director of the National Touring Company and directed the Canadian premiere of Co-ed Prison Sluts for Second City Toronto. Sutton is also an influential voice in the improv community across the United States and Canada. From 2005-2009, he served as the Artistic Director of The Chicago Improv Festival, and throughout the past decade, he has been a featured instructor in dozens of national improv and comedy festivals. His award-winning comedy BASSPROV (co-created with Joe Bill) has been seen in 30 cities in North America.
Change and Cancellation Policy
We can refund your workshop registration 24 or more hours before the workshop. There will be no refunds within 24 hours of the start of the workshop, or after the date of the workshop. You can swap classes – i.e. change to a class other than the one you have registered for – on a space-available basis. Workshop swaps can occur within 24 hours of the workshop.
We can refund your workshop registration 24 or more hours before the workshop. There will be no refunds within 24 hours of the start of the workshop, or after the date of the workshop. You can swap classes – i.e. change to a class other than the one you have registered for – on a space-available basis. Workshop swaps can occur within 24 hours of the workshop.