Kristen Schier
Improv Utopia East 2023
Kristen Schier presents
Elective: well played - a coaching workshop
Elective Workshop
Find ease in improv by entering a flow state and creating balance. This workshop is for students of the art who feel stuck in their heads. Created for performers who are looking to be more honest and active in their work. This workshop explores clown’s relationship to improvisation with a focus on being present, finding emotional depth and presence. Open to all levels because the techniques will be new to everyone. It offers a totally different approach to long-form work that invites you to dream and to let go of the inner judge.
About Kristen
Kristen Schier has extensive improv teaching, directing, and performing experience. She holds a BFA in Performing Arts from the University of the Arts where she taught Acting for Non-Majors, Improvisation for the Actor, and first-year Acting Studio. She has toured all over the country teaching and performing at various festivals such as the Seattle Festival of Improvised Theater, Chicago Improv Festival, Vancouver International Improv Festival, Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam, and more. Kristen is the former Co-Artistic Director of Curious Comedy in Portland Oregon and former Improv Producer at the Philly Improv Theater. She has studied improv at Second City, Magnet Theater, and Annoyance. Kristen has also studied Physical Theater, clown, extensively with Pig Iron Theater company and Movement Theater Studio.
