Improv Comedy Camp: A Circus of Creative Arts

This playful summer camp is for adults who never lost the desire to run away with the circus. Through the art of Improvisational Comedy, three rings of fun including circus acts (no skill required, please!), backstage drama, and pathetic puppetry all come to life under a very small “big top.”

Sessions take place from 1:00 - 3:00 PM

Saturday, May 17

Saturday, May 24

Saturday, May 31

Saturday, June 7

A second summer session will be added soon for July.

$250 per 4 week session including props and art supplies

Location: Art Bias, 1700 Industrial Road, San Carlos, CA 94070

Parking at Art Bias and surrounding streets.

For questions, email Terry Sand at [email protected]

About the Instructor:

Terry Sand, alias Madame Shinsplintski, is a world renowned, or at least somewhat locally familiar, artist, comedian, and improv ring leader. She is on a mission to inspire joy, laughter, and a brief respite from reality through performance, improv, drawings and paintings of her unique comedic characters.

The Shinsplintsky Family Circus began as a comedic theater piece Terry created and performed in San Francisco with a cast of improv comedy actors. The show centered on The Most Dysfunctional Circus on Earth and featured a variety of somewhat pathetic acts and overly dramatic performers.

Madam Shinplintsky is the imaginary founder and artistic director of the circus. She was a former 911-call center operator who thrives on stress. Some of the other characters included Victoria Vargas, a disoriented psychic; Anita Date, a high wire performer afraid of heights; Sally Jesse Feeling Swell, the company’s decertified resident chiropractor; and Monsieur Monterey, a foreign spy of dubious nationality.

Learn more about Terry at www.terrysand.com

Host or Publisher Art Bias