Kristen Schier
Improv Utopia Yosemite 2026
Kristen Schier
Fast Food Viewpoints: Playing with Space, Time, & Movement
Elective Workshop
Fast Food Viewpoints: Playing with Space, Time, & Movement
Want more physical scenes that defy expectation? This workshop will give improvisers a fast-food introduction to the nine elements of theater identified and described by Anne Bogart's Viewpoints. Through loosely devised scene creation, students will explore these key elements of theater with the end goal of enriching their scene work and empowering them in performance.
This class is appropriate for those who want to support their improvisation with some core actor/creator training.
For participants: Know that this class will not deal strictly with improvised scenes, but rather bolster your tools for exploring what is possible in any theatrical/performance setting.
About Kristen
Kristen Schier (she/her) 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.
