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Team Performance Workshop with Peter McNerney

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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

Team Performance Workshop is where our most advanced students continue training as a member of an improv ensemble. The first section includes six weeks of classes during which students are split into two eight-person ensembles. In the second section ensembles rehearse with a coach outside of class to produce a full eight week run of shows on the Magnet Mainstage. For the first half of run, one group performs The Harold while the other performs The Piñata before switching for the second half of the run.. This class is offered twice a year, from either November to February or May to August. February and August also bring opportunities to audition for placement on a Megawatt Team.

Note: Placement in Team Performance Workshop is extremely competitive and spots are limited.

Prerequisite: Level Five: Intro to the Conservatory and Instructor Approval..

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday November 4th
NOTIFICATION DATE: Monday November 11th
PLEASE READ THE SESSION DATES CLOSELY.

Instructor: Peter McNerney

Peter McNerney is a performer and head of the Conservatory Program at the Magnet Theater in New York City and currently performers with Nick Kanellis in the improv duo Trike which The New York Times call "reliably one of the best improv performances in the city."

As an actor Peter can be seen as a series regular in the Science Chanel scripted comedy Stuff You Should Know, HBO's High Maintenance, as well as a bunch of commercials.

Peter also serves as the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director for the nationally respected education and media company The Story Pirates with whom he co-hosts the Story Pirates Podcast.

Peter is the co-writer and director of theater/sketch comedy fusioneers Sax & Dixon, who have been featured at Ars Nova NYC and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.

He is from Winnetka, IL, graduated from Northwestern University and currently lives in Brooklyn with his beautiful and hilarious wife Beth Newell and two loud children.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Nov 17, 2019, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center - Room I
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 24, 2019, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center - Room I
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Dec 8, 2019, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Dec 15, 2019, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Jan 5, 2020, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Jan 12, 2020, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)

Show Schedule*

Jan 12, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Jan 19, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Jan 26, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Feb 2, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Feb 9, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Feb 16, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Feb 23, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)
Mar 1, 2020, 9:00 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}