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Advanced Monologue Deconstruction with Elana Fishbein

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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

In this class (inspired by ADX - The Armando Diaz Experience), improvisers will work on creating a variety of scenes off a truthful monologue (provided by Magnet Theater storytelling students) -- grounded and emotional scenes, fun and silly scenes, group scenes, and more. The entire class will work as an ensemble to create an hour long show with patience, sustainability, patterns and storylines that converge in the end. We'll focus on details, relationships and how we can gain inspiration off the smallest of specifics. If you've enjoyed ADX Saturdays at 7:30pm, then this is the class for you! Prerequisite: Advanced Improv Level One

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*

Feb 25, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Mar 3, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Mar 10, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Mar 17, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Mar 24, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Apr 7, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)

Show Schedule*

Apr 14, 2024, 3:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Apr 21, 2024, 3:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}