Forget the Funny: a Workshop with Hannah Rehak

In this workshop, students will strengthen their acting chops in service of playing more honest relationships on stage. We'll explore tools to develop fully embodied characters through voice, physicality, and POV that can sustain emotionally grounded scenes no matter how absurd, broad and unique their characters are. The question at the heart of this workshop is, no matter the character, "Would they really say/do that?" This class is best suited to advanced improvisers who want to stretch themselves as actors and create characters that they can sustain for more than a few minutes.

About the Instructor:

Hannah Rehak (she/her) is a performer, podcast producer and filmmaker with over a decade of experience in improv and sketch comedy. She is currently a NYCo understudy and a faculty member at The Second City New York.

Credits include:

• Improv: Hot Seat - an iO Primetime Show , Crocodile Nasties - an iO Harold Team, and Dreamboat - iO's LGBTQ Primetime Show.
• Sketch: iO House Sketch Team, The Second City Chicago BizCo, TourCo Understudy

When not doing and teaching improv and sketch, Hannah can be found writing headlines for Reductress, producing the pop culture podcast Material Girls, or rearranging her furniture.

About Highwire Improv:

Highwire Improv is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization based in Baltimore, Maryland. Our mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice — in Baltimore and around the world — through improvisational theater.

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