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Improv Level One

Improv Level One with Dennis Pacheco

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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: Dennis Pacheco

Dennis has been a teacher at the Magnet since mid-2021. He has been performing on stage since 2012. He is an improviser, actor, sketch writer, sketch performer, director, and coach. He studied with Peter McNerney, Russ Armstrong, Louis Kornfeld, Rachel Hamilton, Michael Delaney, Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Kevin Mullaney, Joe Bill, John Timothy, Sean Casey, and other fine people.

His voice can be heard on podcasts like The Truth, Everything is Alive, Famous Dead People, and Girl Tales. He is the co-host and co-creator (with Ellen Matthews) of the podcast The Pursuit of Perfectness.

You can catch him performing Saturday nights on the cast of The Armando Diaz Experience. He is the director of Livewire sketch team Ghost Girl.

He lives in Brooklyn.

His website is dennispache.co

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Jul 25, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  2. Aug 1, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  3. Aug 8, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  4. Aug 15, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  5. Aug 22, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  6. Aug 29, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  7. Sep 5, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)
  8. Sep 12, 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
    (btw 36th & 37th Sts)

Show Schedule*

  1. Sep 15, 2024, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
    2. *scheduling subject to change