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Improv Level One with Hannah Chase

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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

From day one you will jump into a series of fun warm ups and games designed to ease you into improv. Before you know it you will be playing scenes and learning how to heighten and explore your ideas. As the class progresses you will learn how to do 2 person scenes, group scenes, group games and how to deliver simple monologues. The class is all about fun and support. Whether you are a beginner who has never improvised or someone who has improv experience, you will learn strong fundamentals that will build your confidence, improve speaking skills and foster spontaneity

Instructor: Hannah Chase

Hannah Chase is the Megawatt Director, as well as an instructor and performer at the Magnet Theater. She first discovered improv in 2002, and has studied and worked with some truly fantastic teachers and performers across the country over the last 16 years.

You can see Hannah perform on Thursdays with her Block Party team, The Music Industry, and on Saturdays in the Armando Diaz Experience. Hannah has also performed at dozens of improv festivals across the country.

Hannah has created and directed a number of shows at the Magnet including The Cast, which plays on Saturday nights at the Magnet and which Elise Czajkowski (comedy journalist for the New York Times) called "One of the most exciting improv shows in New York City.... the perfect show for comedy and theater fans alike." Hannah also created and directs The Blob, a Time Out NY Recommended Comedy Pick, as well as a number of other recurring shows.

Outside of The Magnet, you can hear Hannah's voice in a number of Truth podcasts. In her free time, she loves alphabetizing lists, editing films, trying on other people's glasses, learning about the brain, and reading and writing medical memoir comics. She's still working on her website. It's been five years.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Aug 27, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Sep 10, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Sep 17, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Oct 1, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Oct 8, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Oct 15, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Oct 22, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 1
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)
Oct 29, 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Michael Howard Studios - Studio 2
(152 W. 25th Street, 10th fl)

Show Schedule*

Nov 5, 2023, 3:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}