Joyful Selfishness (3-week series)
with Kenny Madison
Do you worry about the other person on stage way, way, way more than yourself?
This is the class for you.
Selfish is not a bad word. It’s just you making a choice for yourself. So why are you giving gifts to your scene partner when YOU don’t know what you want to do in the dang improv scene?
In this workshop series, we are going to achieve the following objectives:
- Identify where players give up their own ability to play in improv
- Create “hacks” specifically designed to let you improv when you’re in a bind
- Push players to be a little louder, bigger, faster, and whatever else they’ve been counting on the other player to be
This is about finding the fun in being a little selfish on stage. Maybe a lot selfish. We’ll see.
This class is open to graduates of Level Three and above.
7-9:30pm on Mondays Sept 22, 29 and Oct 6 (pay what you can $89/$129/$150)
at The Hideout Theatre downtown
Bio:
For more than 15 years, Kenny Madison has been performing improv to crowds ranging from 2 to 200, and never bigger or smaller than that. Throw a rock at an improv theater, you can probably hit somebody that has played with Kenny. Those people will know that he:
- Plays with his duo Kenny/Rogers(which has taken him to New York, Oklahoma, San Antonio, and even one time at a corporate retreat in Mexico)
- Teaches at the Hideout and has done so for the past 2ish years
- Has taken workshops from Mick Napier, Jill Bernard, Jimmy Carrane, Joe Bill, and other people that you can look up to assure you that Kenny knows what he’s doing
Hopefully, people take away that Kenny makes them feel supported, literally no matter what their experience level is. Improv is too fun to be treated as a chore. Rules are guidelines. Each student has their own strengths. And it’s up to both the student and Kenny to find those strengths, unlock them, and let them level up their own play.