Kristen Schier
Improv Utopia East 2026
Kristen Schier presents
Elective: In the Style of Shakespeare
Elective Workshop: In the Style of Shakespeare
Dive into a world where language is alive—rife with rhetoric, rich with poetry, and driven by bold intention. Emotions run high, and every character’s inner life is vivid and specific.
Let’s learn to improvise like Shakespeare.
This isn’t about tossing in a few “thees” and “thous.” It’s about crafting metaphor, building imagery, and letting language elevate your performance. You’ll explore how heightened text can deepen character, sharpen choices, and bring scenes to life.
Even if you never perform in a Shakespearean style, this workshop will expand your relationship to language, unlocking new levels of play, wit, and creativity.
Come tap into your inner playwright—and discover what happens when your words truly matter.
About Kristen
Kristen Schier is an actor, improviser, teacher, and clown. She has extensive improv teaching, directing, and performing experience. She holds a BFA in Theater Arts from the University of the Arts where she also 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.
