Using Improv Techniques to Develop Your Play

Come join the Indiana Playwrights Circle for our October 13 large group face - to - face meeting--one of our quarterly networking events. The topic will be: ways to use IMPROV to help develop your playwriting project.

We will meet at the District Theatre on Mass Ave and first, we will learn about how the District Theatre works with new plays and playwrights. Pauline Moffat from the District Theatre will be our special guest for Part One.

Then Joe Wagner and Kelsey VanVoorst (Behind the Couch Comedy) will present a few simple improve techniques and help the group try them out. (Part Two)

Finally we will take a couple of scenes from possible plays and experiment with using improv techniques to "build them out". (Part Three)

And as always, there will be lots of networking, meeting and greeting and sharing of experinces. (Throughout!)

Be there, or be square!

Joe Wagner - Joe has been an Indianapolis native for 9 years and has been performing and teaching improvised comedy in Indy for 7. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Theater from Indiana State University. He has also worked with many theaters in town as an actor, American Lives Theater (Lifespan of a Fact) Bardfest (Angels in America) Theater Unchained (Coping with Autumn and Love/Sick).

Kelsey VanVoorst - Kelsey has been acting and improvising in the Indianapolis area for 15 years. They are a company member of CSz (ComedySportz) Indianapolis. They perform in various improv showcases around the city with various theaters and companies, like Behind the Couch, The Brick Room, Red Curb, The White Rabbit Cabaret, and more. Kelsey performs regularly in theatrical productions with Defiance Comedy, Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, and Betty Rage Productions. Next up, Kelsey can be seen this winter in "A Very Phoenix Xmas 16: It's a Wonderful Die-Hard Life Story Actually" at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis.

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