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2 Day Long Form Improv Workshop.

This workshop is for anyone who has already studied Improvisation and has had extensive training in general. The class will focus on helping you to "Act like Yourself" on stage, meaning, if you can be who you are off stage, while on stage, in the context of the scene, that's the journey of the Improviser. The goal for each improvisor is to find their own voice on stage. Entertain yourself and you'll entertain others. The first day will have an emphasis on scenes and editing, and the second day we will delve into longform.

Limited class size.

ALI REZA FARAHNAKIAN studied extensively with Charna Halpern and Del Close in the 1990s at ImprovOlympic (IO). He was also a founding member of the UCB with whom he helped to create the critically acclaimed show, "Virtual Reality". At The Second City in Chicago he was part of the Jeff-nominated show The Revelation Will Not Be Televised (dir. Jeff Richmond) for which he also received a Jeff nomination for Best Actor in a Revue. His one-man show Word of Mouth was an official selection to the US Comedy Arts Festival 2001 in Aspen. He was a writer on Saturday Night Live during its 25th anniversary season and received a Writers Guild Award nomination. He has worked on The Steppenwolf Mainstage in Chicago and BAM in Brooklyn. Television credits include all the Law and Order's, All My Children, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 30 ROCK. He has been in many films, 3 of which have gone to Sundance and one went to Cannes. In 2002 he founded The Peoples Improv Theater (aka The PIT).

Ali is Founder of The Peoples Improv Theater (The Pit).
The PIT.

Ali on YouTube.

Location: Toronto. $250.00.

Please call us with any inquiries at 416.570.0522, or email classes@filmlab.ca.