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Advanced Improv L1 with Elana Fishbein

Apply Class Days: Mondays 6pm - 8pm (applications due 10/23, notifications 10/30)
Begins: Nov 11, 2024
Ends: Jan 13, 2025
Price: $349

Check below to see the full schedule for each session, see if your class skips a week for a holiday, and check out the date and time of your class show(s).

Class Description

Advanced Improv Studies at the Magnet Theater aim to help students expand their improv skill-set, hone on-stage confidence, and develop greater consistency as performers. Advanced Improv 1 is the first component of advanced training and includes eight weeks of classes, followed by a four week run of shows.

Completion of Magnet Improv Level Three and instructor approval are required for admission to Advanced Improv 1 classes.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: noon Wed (10/23)
NOTIFICATION DATE: Wed (10/30)

Instructor: Elana Fishbein

Elana Fishbein is an improv instructor, consultant, and performer based in New York City. She has designed curriculum and facilitated improv workshops for corporations, non-profits, and educational institutions all over the United States and beyond. Elana’s targeted, experiential sessions have helped thousands of students expand their ability to communicate, collaborate, empathize, and lead through radical respect and elevation each other’s ideas.

Elana is a teacher at the Magnet Theater in New York City. She can be seen performing with the Armando Diaz Experience, Magnet Theater TourCo, and her solo improv show, Pepita (Best of the Fest, San Diego Improv Festival). She has been featured at the Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Eau Claire, Edmonton, Omaha, Philadelphia, and Women in Comedy Festivals, among others. Her two-woman play, Sisters Three, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick.

Elana has written and performed for The Truth Podcast (Radiotopia), Story Pirates Podcast (Gimlet), and appeared on BBC America’s Almost Royal, as well as in the original musical comedies Girl Camp and Nightfall on Miranga Island. She is a member of Story Pirates, a non-profit arts-in-education organization that takes stories written by kids and adapts them into hilarious sketches and songs. She is the co-creator of two professional development workshop series for teachers: “Beyond Winging It: Improv in the Classroom” and “Play.” Elana is featured in the documentary short, LMAO, about the therapeutic potential of laughter and comedy.

Elana holds an M.A. in Educational Theater from NYU and B.A. in Drama from Vassar College. Her favorite succulent is jade.

Check out her website: www.elanafishbein.com

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Nov 11, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 18, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Nov 25, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Dec 2, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Dec 9, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Dec 16, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Jan 6, 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Jan 13, 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)

Show Schedule*

Jan 12, 2025, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Jan 19, 2025, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Jan 26, 2025, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Feb 2, 2025, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}