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Artistic New Directions' own Scotty Watson (INNY Nominee for Best Workshop/Class) leads this workshop for improvisors of all levels who want more opportunities to play and perform:
Scotty Watson's Big-Ass Workshop in Improvisation
Monday, March 28 - 12pm-5:30pm - $50
Performance/Jam on Monday, March 28 - 9:30 pm
An all-levels-of-experience total improv workout. Just like Scotty's regular Wednesday workshop...but bigger-assed!
Workshop attendees are invited to perform in a late-night improv jam that very same evening. Get that stage time you so vitally need!
Focus is on the basics! You'll learn to make active positive choices and to support and honor the physical and verbal reality of the scene. You will also learn that as an actor, it's your job to justify the stuff that goes wrong. Finally, you will learn how to apply these basic principles to both long-form and short-form improvisation.
While more experienced improvisers can work-out and stretch their improv muscles, those starting out can learn by playing with the pros. If you have never improvised before, Scotty will have you up and improvising within the hour with his Harold w/ Training Wheels Form, as developed at The Artistic New Directions Summer Improv Intensive in The Catskills. This wildly popular form is being utilized by The Great Gary Austin on stage at The Groundlings in LA! But you can do it with Scotty right here in NYC!
This Workshop is a safe space to grow and experiment. There is no performance pressure. Scotty focuses on the positive so that participants learn to repeat the good-stuff avoid the bad-stuff.
There is no pressure and no yelling. There is laughter. You will learn to improvise and you will feel good about yourself.
Limit 16 students.
This workshop is open to improvisors of all levels. To apply – contact ANDReserve@aol.com
Scotty Watson teaches long and short form improvisation, as well as improv for actors and character development through physicality. He has been improvising professionally since the ripe old age of 16 and is an alumni of The Second City Canadian National Touring Company. For Artistic New Directions in New York, Scotty teaches a very popular workshop in Improvisation as well as a drop-in class for Luna Stage as part of The Valley Arts District in New Jersey. Scotty taught sketch writing for The Second City NYC and Improvisation for Actors for The University of Toronto. He is an active member of ComedySportzNYC where he often runs workshops for the regular cast. Onstage, Scotty was the dis-embodied head of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton in the Off-Broadway musical Walmartopia! and served as an alternate for "Bebe" in Cirque du Soleil's Mystere. He has done feature films with Ed Asner, Eric Stoltz and Gerard Depardieu.
Scotty Watson's Big-Ass Workshop in Improvisation
Monday, March 28 - 12pm-5:30pm - $50
Performance/Jam on Monday, March 28 - 9:30 pm
An all-levels-of-experience total improv workout. Just like Scotty's regular Wednesday workshop...but bigger-assed!
Workshop attendees are invited to perform in a late-night improv jam that very same evening. Get that stage time you so vitally need!
Focus is on the basics! You'll learn to make active positive choices and to support and honor the physical and verbal reality of the scene. You will also learn that as an actor, it's your job to justify the stuff that goes wrong. Finally, you will learn how to apply these basic principles to both long-form and short-form improvisation.
While more experienced improvisers can work-out and stretch their improv muscles, those starting out can learn by playing with the pros. If you have never improvised before, Scotty will have you up and improvising within the hour with his Harold w/ Training Wheels Form, as developed at The Artistic New Directions Summer Improv Intensive in The Catskills. This wildly popular form is being utilized by The Great Gary Austin on stage at The Groundlings in LA! But you can do it with Scotty right here in NYC!
This Workshop is a safe space to grow and experiment. There is no performance pressure. Scotty focuses on the positive so that participants learn to repeat the good-stuff avoid the bad-stuff.
There is no pressure and no yelling. There is laughter. You will learn to improvise and you will feel good about yourself.
Limit 16 students.
This workshop is open to improvisors of all levels. To apply – contact ANDReserve@aol.com
Scotty Watson teaches long and short form improvisation, as well as improv for actors and character development through physicality. He has been improvising professionally since the ripe old age of 16 and is an alumni of The Second City Canadian National Touring Company. For Artistic New Directions in New York, Scotty teaches a very popular workshop in Improvisation as well as a drop-in class for Luna Stage as part of The Valley Arts District in New Jersey. Scotty taught sketch writing for The Second City NYC and Improvisation for Actors for The University of Toronto. He is an active member of ComedySportzNYC where he often runs workshops for the regular cast. Onstage, Scotty was the dis-embodied head of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton in the Off-Broadway musical Walmartopia! and served as an alternate for "Bebe" in Cirque du Soleil's Mystere. He has done feature films with Ed Asner, Eric Stoltz and Gerard Depardieu.