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Dramatic Improv
with Sarah Marie Curry (The Actor’s Lab)
Saturday Afternoon Workshop (2.5hrs)
Do you consider yourself an improviser but not an actor? This class will teach you the very simple and basic tools needed to become a deeper, emotionally present improv actor and how to look precise and polished and inspired while you do it. Increase and adjust your focus and concentration to better serve you in the scene, by understanding how to play like a child, with an adult’s abilities and discipline! Improvisors who take this class will discover new and surprising depths to their work instantly with the power of theatrical stagecraft and human vulnerability.
This class is intended for intermediate/advanced improvisers (18 & older) with some prior improv experience (Hideout Level 3 or above)
2-4:30pm on Saturday, August 30 (pay what you can $24/$34/$50)
Bio: SARAH MARIE CURRY is an award winning actor living in Austin, Texas. Regional credits include: Fun Home (Alison), The Last Five Years (Jaimie), Reefer Madness (Mary Lane), Company (Jenny), Into the Woods (Cinderella), Mack & Mabel (Mabel Normand) and The Baker’s Wife (Genvieve). She was a proud member of the Award Winning Troupe: Girls Girls Girls Improvised Musicals for 8 years and has been awarded Best Actress for her roles on stage with The B. Iden Payne Award Council of Austin as well as Best Improv Troupe multiple times over. On stage she has been called “hilarious” “fierce” “truly exceptional” and “part artist, part mad scientist” by The Austin Chronicle. Off stage, Sarah Marie is a passionate director of improvised narrative productions such as Risen: Improvised Stories in World War Z and Tarantula: Dynamic Dreamlike Improv. She has directed staged readings such as Phoenix by Scott Organ and sketch shows including F*&K It’s Christmas at The Institution Theatre. She has studied improvisation with Mick Napier, Craig Cackowski, Todd Stashwick, Laura Hall and interactive visionary Jeff Wirth. She trained and taught at Carol Hickey Acting Studio in the lineage of Charles Jellinger and Harry Maestrogeorge for seven years until opening her own micro-studio The Actor’s Lab. Act Lab is dedicated to serving the Austin community with affordable, incredible, curated story and acting practicum. For show updates and more go to www.sarahmariecurry.com and/or www.actlabatx.org