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Level Five: Intro to the Conservatory with Peter McNerney
Class Description
Level Five: Improv Revue - Advanced training is about becoming a confident, skilled and consistent performer. Level Five is the first component of advanced training and includes six weeks of classes that explore more challenging pieces, followed by a four week run of shows. Students explore The Montage, The Mono Scene, The Expansion, Freeze Tag and more, and present these forms and games during their full four week revue at The Magnet Studio Theater.
Completion of Level Four and instructor approval are required for admission to the Conservatory classes.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 12th
NOTIFICATION DATE: July 16th
Peter McNerney is a performer and head of the Conservatory Program at the Magnet Theater in New York City and currently performers with Nick Kanellis in the improv duo Trike which The New York Times call "reliably one of the best improv performances in the city."
As an actor Peter can be seen as a series regular in the Science Chanel scripted comedy Stuff You Should Know, HBO's High Maintenance, as well as a bunch of commercials.
Peter also serves as the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director for the nationally respected education and media company The Story Pirates with whom he co-hosts the Story Pirates Podcast.
Peter is the co-writer and director of theater/sketch comedy fusioneers Sax & Dixon, who have been featured at Ars Nova NYC and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.
He is from Winnetka, IL, graduated from Northwestern University and currently lives in Brooklyn with his beautiful and hilarious wife Beth Newell and two loud children.
Full Session Schedule
Session Schedule*
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Jul 19, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor) -
Jul 26, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor) -
Aug 2, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor) -
Aug 9, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor) -
Aug 16, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor) -
Aug 23, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor) -
Aug 30, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Show Schedule*
- Sep 9, 2018, 6:30 PM
at Magnet Studio Theater
(22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A) - Sep 16, 2018, 6:30 PM
at Magnet Studio Theater
(22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A) - Sep 23, 2018, 6:30 PM
at Magnet Studio Theater
(22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A) - Sep 30, 2018, 6:30 PM
at Magnet Studio Theater
(22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A)
*scheduling subject to change