Improv Workshops

The Bovine School of Improv presents:

MASTER CLASS
with Steve Harwood

Setting Scenes in Motion Through Emotion:  This Master Class will teach the importance of emotional choices in a scene.  Using Steve's techniques, improvisers will be armed with near-foolproof methods of starting scenes and discovering the game quickly through emotional decisions.

Steve Harwood has been improvising for over 14 years.  He trained at iO in LA, where his show "The Award Winning Documentary" ran for four years.  He's also trained at UCB, the Groundlings, and The Second City in Los Angeles.  His podcast, "The Expertologists," can be downloaded on iTunes.  And, to be frank, the rest of his bio is far too controversial to mention here.  Seriously.

Mondays, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Class dates: August 2, 9, 16, 23
Cost: $140
ENROLL ONLINE
Enrollment in this class is limited to Bovine graduates or by permission (email eric@bovinemetropolis.com).

 

***also***

MATT DONNELLY WORKSHOPS

Saturday, August 28
Cost: $75 (or $130 for both)

Strengths & Weaknesses Workshop
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
ENROLL ONLINE
Enrollment in this workshop is limited to Bovine graduates or by permission (email eric@bovinemetropolis.com).

In this workshop, each student will communicate his/her strengths and weaknesses and Matt will set up scenes with specific parameters that attack those weaknesses. Students will also refine and sharpen strengths or address habits that evolve from relying on certain strengths.  Scene work, form work, tag outs, walk-ons, status, initiating, following and supporting, getting out of

your head, playing new characters, getting inspired or refueling creativity: nothing is off limits.  Matt brings the wisdom of his 16 years in improvisation and lends his focus completely to each individual in the workshop.  Rather than teach one method of improv, students communicate their own method to Matt and receive feedback.  The goal of this is class is for each student to feel good, look good, and be great the next time they take the stage.

This class re-examines the principles of the original Harold (patterns, group scenes, heightening with solid scene work), and builds a new form that advances those principles in a more modern and faster form.  This class will cover the Greeks: Seven Pillars of Art as a basic form/piece vocabulary so that students can examine their performance pieces with the same articulate depth that they examine their scene work.  Further, students will learn how to be guiltlessly aggressive as a group and how to attain Speed - a run of rapid fire scenes that end a performance piece rather than shoe-horning all connections into one "closer" scene.

A little bit about Matt Donnelly...

Matt recently moved from New York City to Las Vegas, where he now teaches Advanced Long Form for Improv Vegas and hosts and performs in the longform improv show "Executive Monkeys" at The Palms Resort Casino.  He recently finished up a 2 month run of Wayne Brady's "Making **It Up" at the Venetian.  Before that, Matt spent the last six years being an instructor at the People's Improv Theatre in New York where he taught level 3 (Intro to Performance Improvisation) as well as Master Classes in La Ronde, Deconstruction, and Chapter Forms (i.e. Armando/Mosaic).  He co-created the Neutrino Video Projects, which appeared at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and has been franchised to 11 other cities around the world.  Previously, he taught improv in the acting program at the New York Film Academy, and is an annual guest instructor at the Columbia University Business School Executive Education Program.  His Improv teachers include Amy Poehler, Armando Diaz, Charne Halpurn, Liz Allen, Miles Stroth, and many others.  He has coached house teams at the PIT, UCB, and Magnet Theatre in New York and is a BFA Acting Alumni of Montclair State University.  Seminal improv groups Matt performed in include Neutrino, Possible Side Effects, Threat, and The Faculty.