The Edge Effect Improv Lab

[duffi]

The Edge Effect Improv Lab - with Meghan Duffy

...Come Play, Innovate, Compose

Workshop Dates
November 14th - 4pm - 6pm
November 21st - 4 pm - 6pm
November 28th - 4pm - 6pm
December 5th - 4pm - 6pm
December 12th - 4pm - 6pm

Show: December 18th - 9:30pm - 11:00pm

Tuition: $100

Register through Paypal here:
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The Edge Effect brings us face-to-face with, and pushes us beyond, our current limits as artists. In this lab, we will compose an artist’s fugue by exploring the themes of gesture, repetition, the intuitive, interaction ritual, creativity, and transformation found in Viewpoints, Chekhov, Meisner, Spolin, Boyd, Forsberg, and the Practical Aesthetic. We will play with and build on these concepts by engaging with creativity theory in order to enhance, expand, and energize our practice and further develop our own voices as innovative artists.

Open to All!

Meghan is a professional actor/theatre scholar/educator. She has worked in every performance venue from Broadway to Boats and is currently in rehearsals for Sweeney Todd.

Brief Bio:
Meghan Duffy has played Frenchy in the original Broadway production of Grease and her National Tour credits include Trixie in The Rocky Horror Show and Gooch in Mame, starring Juliet Prowse. She has appeared Off-Broadway as Knowledge in Everyman, Lynnie in The Wonder Years, Helen in Swirl, and Georgy in Georgy, a musical based on the film Georgy Girl. Regional Theatre productions include A Christmas Survival Guide, Over Here, She Loves Me, Forbidden Planet, Christmas Carol, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Beehive, Little Shop of Horrors, Jacques Brel, Godspell, and Dames at Sea (Sarah Siddons best actress nomination). She has written and produced her own one-person performance pieces, What A Wonderful World!, The Meghan Duffy Show and Girls Don’t. Meghan has recorded film soundtracks in London and the U.S. and is featured on The Care Bear recordings.

 

[mikelibrarian]

I got rave reviews for the class from my friends, and I'm taking it.

 

[Mikey]

What city is this in?

 

[mikelibrarian]

New York. It is happening at a place in midtown called the Tank that's at 354 West 45th.

 

[lefty]

Meghan is an amazing teacher and amazing person. Her bio/credits/credentials is actually a lot longer than she indicated. She also was part of The Saint Vitus Dancers improv team in Chicago which, quoting from their facebook page, was an improv group that "grew out of out of the Players Workshop of Second City in the 70's, at the absolute beginning of the standup and improvisational comedy revolution." She's also getting or got her PhD in theater, and her work on that ties back into improv. All this adds up to someone with with a staggering amount of experience and expertise in every aspect of this stuff, and an unending passion for it. There is no two ways about this: she's the real deal, and a transcendent force that I hope for the good of us all is about to be unleashed on the improv community of NYC.


Here is what Jeff Michalski said of her: "Meghan not only believes in the artist as improvisor she shows you how to experience it. As a performer and as a teacher Meghan Duffy has It! Meghan immerses the player into the form and the form into the player. You leave this workshop a much better improvisor, someone who understands that presence and play is the art of improvisation."

TAKE THIS CLASS. Get better in ways you didn't even know existed.

 

[DanAbrams]

This is a performance workshop. Allow me to rephrase: this is THE performance workshop.

 

[lefty]

Good point, Dan. And, it starts today.

Sign up or just show up early.