Nothing Funny Here! An Online Acting & Improv Class with Karla Dingle

Challenge yourself as an improviser and an actor in this class. We'll use real situations to delve into what happens when life is complicated and people get real. It’ll be messy, emotional and vulnerable. This class will force you to listen to your heart and your tummy.

We’ll focus on heightening both the scene and your reaction through elevating the intensity with the assistance of the emotional wheel. In the end, we’ll search for the WHY in your scene to help sustain the authenticity of the performance and sharpen your senses.
Class details:

3 weeks of online zoom classes for 2.5 hours. Meets Mobember 10, 17, 24. Returning student pricing and scholarships available. please email [email protected] with any questions.

About Me:

Karla Dingle (she/her) has spent her life on the stage. She began taking theater classes at age 5 and continued to study acting until receiving her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Georgia in Theater in 1998. Karla began performing improv in Charlotte in 2009 and continues to educate herself through workshops and classes at Second City, Hoopla, The Groundlings and more. Karla is also an actor and voiceover artist.​ Currently, Karla is the Education Director and an Instructor at Queen City Comedy in Charlotte, NC in the US. She is also the Improv Director and an Acting Instructor at a local studio in Charlotte, NC. You can see her performing with Now are the Foxes Improv Comedy, Close Distance Improv, and British American Experience.

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Karla’s passion besides performing is teaching and coaching. She focuses on the intersection between acting and improvisation, and on using traditional acting tools and techniques to enhance the skills and performances in both actors and improvisers. Over the last several years, Karla has instructed students from Peru, Israel, India, Canada, Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Philippines and beyond. In addition, she has been a guest instructor at the Improv Fest Ireland, Vintage Improv Festival in Boston, Highwire Improv in Baltimore, The Nursery in London, Virtual Hug Improv in Manila, Liverpool Comedy Improv and the Bangalore Improv Community. Most recently, Karla was selected as a 2023 Theater IDA Artist in Residency in Zurich, Switzerland.

Karla’s students can be seen in feature films for Netflix and Amazon Prime as well as television series and voiceover work. Additionally, her students have been featured in commercial campaigns for CVS, Lending Tree, Food Lion, Atrium Healthcare and more.

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