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This course introduces students to the actor’s art and techniques. Students will learn and use exercises, discussion, rehearsal and performance to broaden their experience of theatre and themselves. They will also sample a spectrum of theatrical methodologies and reflect on their own learning process in order to develop their own voice as a theatre artist. There are no prerequisites for this course.

This class is an introduction to long-form improvisation and Harold as developed by Del Close at Second City and iO in Chicago and UCB in New York. The student-improviser will be introduced to the fundamentals of improvisation: listening, trust, agreement and commitment; and come to understand callbacks, tag-outs, finding the game in a scene, yes-and, swinging doors, edits, and montage; and each student will perform many Harolds for classmates and outside audiences.