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Improv Level Two (in-person) 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

Level 2 continues your study of scene work. You will learn how to choose and maintain a strong point of view, how to play more developed characters, and how to sustain longer scenes. You will then explore the next set of skills which include doing call backs and playing second and third beats. After this class you’ll be able to take on most long forms.

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*

May 2, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
May 9, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
May 16, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
May 23, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
May 30, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Jun 6, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Jun 13, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)
Jun 20, 2023, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at Ripley Grier (520 8th Ave, 16th fl)
(btw 36th & 37th Sts)

Show Schedule*

Jun 24, 2023, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}