S2 25 LEVEL 4 IMPROV Harold 101 Saturdays w/ Mary C. Parker
Serious about leveling up your improv? Then it’s time to learn how to do a great Harold! Chicago’s famous long-form improv format. The Harold is the CrossFit of improv training. A full body-and-mind workout of essential skills focused on revisiting the core fun ideas you develop, heightening and exploring them using new scenes, and finding thematic and character connections that leave your audience wondering how the performers pulled it off. In this class, you’ll learn the techniques that make the Harold seem magical and peek behind the curtain of how to use an opening effectively, create second beats that keep your momentum going, and identify callbacks and connections towards the end of your show. *Game of the Scene is a concept essential to Kickstand’s philosophy; don’t worry, we’ll teach you!
Register: https://kickstandcomedy.crowdwork.com/classes/s2-25-level-4-improv-harold-101-saturdays-w-mary-c-parker
INSTRUCTOR: Mary C. Parker
DAY / TIME: Saturdays 1:30 - 3:30 PM (2 hours)
DATE RANGE: 8 weeks. 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/31, 6/7, 6/14 *skip 5/24
CLASS SHOW Sun 6/15 7 PM *subject to change
LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97214
PREREQUISITE: Level 3 at Kickstand
ABOUT MARY C. PARKER
(She/Her)
Mary C. Parker is a performer, applied theater facilitator, and independent international scholar. As a performer, Mary has performed improv comedy in Portland, OR, London, UK, and Pittsburgh, PA teams in 175+ in-person shows including the Improv Festivus (Richmond, VA), Edinburgh Improv Festival (Scotland), Pittsburgh Comedy Festival (Pittsburgh, PA), and 2nd Best Fest (Richmond, VA). Her online improv has reached global audiences with over 6,300 views. In her applied theater work, Mary employs humor to deepen humility and disrupt fragility, one laugh at a time using a praxis of applied improvisation, playback theater, and theatre of the oppressed. As an international scholar, Mary has been on Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Point Park Conservatory of Performing Arts and has researched and published on identity, comedy, and structural racism. In 2022 she was awarded a Frank-Ratchye Fund For Art @ the Frontier Grant to document and research the history of Black improv. Mary earned an MA in Applied Theatre, is a credentialed International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Coach, and is soon to be a Certified Humor Professional (CHP) through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH). More at www.marycparker.com.
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