Silverbacks Improv Level Three

Name: Silverbacks Improv Level Three
Start: 2025-02-01T10:00:00-06:00
Location: 109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70501

Schedule

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70501 | Lafayette, LA

Silverbacks Improv Level Three brings you beyond the game and into the world of open scenework and longform! Discover the tools for creating free scenes, principles of large-group scenes, and the foundations of the longforms Living Room, Armando and La Ronde. For students who have completed Silverbacks Level Two or similar improv experience.
Cité des Arts, Lafayette, LA
Saturdays Feb. 1 through Mar. 29, 10 AM to Noon
$200.00 per student. Payment plans and Labor Exchange possible; please contact Silverbacks if you want to take the course but cannot pay the full amount at this time.
Your teachers!--
Dr. Nico Zaunbrecher has performed, directed and taught improvisational theatre in over 400 shows over the last 25 years. Starting with the still-running Cult of the Stage Monkey at University of Louisiana–Lafayette in 1999, he went on to complete a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, focusing on culture, theory and history of improvisation and spontaneity. He has taught communication and performance at Lenoir-Rhyne University, South Louisiana Community College, and Southern University, and published research on improv and social theory in the journals Theatre Topics and Human Studies. He is currently Artistic Director of Silverbacks Improv Theatre, Curriculum Designer for Boomerang Comedy, and one-half of the improv duos Two for the Road, Lonelycrowd, Antic Disposition and Encounter En-Canto.
Katie Lahey has been doing improv since the before times of Covid. She enjoys being part of the improv community. She performs improv with the Silverbacks and the Tempo Tantrums. She has a degree in Theatre from LSU, took classes at Second City and with the Silverbacks, and completed a summer musical theatre intensive at Circle in the Square Theatre School. She has performed in theatre regionally and in NYC.