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Level Four: Senior Project - Evente with Armando Diaz
Class Description
Level Four dives deep into an advanced form (e.g. Evente, MonoScene, Deconstruction, Sleepover, Harold+, The Movie, Choose Your Own Adventure) and works on that form with the singular focus need to create a great show. Evente is a narrative long-form that explores a single event through flashbacks, time dashes, and other advanced techniques. Prerequisite: Magnet Level Three
Armando is widely regarded as one of the best improv teachers in New York City and beyond. His list of teaching credits is a long one: the ImprovOlympic Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, NYU and Michael Howard Studios. He has trained dozens of actors who have performed or written for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mad TV, and The Daily Show.
A Chicago native, Armando studied improv under Del Close at the ImprovOlympic, Mick Napier at the Annoyance, and graduated from the Second City Conservatory. He performed in and helped create one of the most popular improvised longforms in Chicago, "The Armando Diaz Experience...." For the last decade, "the Armando" has been performed weekly in Chicago, and is now taught and performed in many other cities including Los Angeles and New York.
In addition to writing and producing short films, Armando wrote sketches for the show Upright Citizens Brigade on Comedy Central, and has performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Full Session Schedule
Session Schedule*
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Sep 22, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Sep 29, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Oct 6, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Oct 13, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Oct 20, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Oct 27, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Nov 3, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Nov 10, 2020, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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