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Conservatory Performance: Object Work

Conservatory Performance: Object Work with Charlie Nicholson

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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

Join us for four weeks to return to your theater and improv fundamentals by incorporating physical props back into your scenes. Together, we will explore the physical and psychic characteristics of each object, generating an improvised performance as we go. This class will cover spatial & sensory exploration, personal monologues, character work, puppetry, and more, culminating in a class show on the Magnet MainStage! Prerequisite: Level 5 Intro to the Conservatory

Instructor: Charlie Nicholson

Charlie was born during the Blizzard of 1989 in the small town of Pomfret, Connecticut. He loves Star Wars, puzzles, tomatoes, and cats. If you want to impress him, mention Ray Bradbury in passing. A proud Story Pirate, he's an alumnus of Vassar College and he works as Education Fellow at the New York Public Library! In addition to teaching and performing at the Magnet, Charlie runs Improv-for-Beginners and Improv-for-Actors workshops in high schools, libraries, film academies, bachelorre parties, graduation ceremonies, weddings, haunted houses, and baby showers all across the 5 boroughs and beyond.

Charlie has studied comedy at the Magnet Theater and UCB, but he really got cookin' with THE LIMIT back at Vassar in the early '10s. He spends his leisure time drawing, sleeping, and giving directions.

New York acting highlights include; The Ginsberg Project (Alchemical Theater), Height of Success (Secret Theater), Ambrosia (Manhattan Rep), The Disastrous Tale of Vera and Linus (Kipuka Theater/Salem Art Works) and Drag/Stein (Target Margin/Bushwick Starr).

Let's get these Halloween parties going, but don't forget to start planning your Mid-Summer outfits!

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Sep 26, 2019, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  2. Oct 3, 2019, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  3. Oct 17, 2019, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
  4. Oct 24, 2019, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
    at The Magnet Training Center
    (22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)

Show Schedule*

  1. Oct 26, 2019, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
    2. *scheduling subject to change