Revisiting Joy
So many people are taking so many classes, hungry for the work,but worried about improvising 'correctly' and I simply want to push specificity and the verbal and physical clues that are already there at the top of the scene, waiting to be mined. This workshop goes by super fast, and hopefully leaves an improviser more confident and delighted with themselves, as they very well should be.This workshop is designed especially for the needs of the people attending the workshop. Each one is unique.
Susan Messing
Susan Messing, a New Jersey native, is a graduate of Northwestern University. She performed for over 20 years with Chicago’s iO Theatre.
At the legendary Second City, Messing wrote and performed in two mainstage revues and directed their National Touring Company. Messing is a founding member of the infamous Annoyance Theatre where she has created roles in over thirty original productions, including “Co-Ed Prison Sluts”, “The Miss Vagina Pageant”, and “Your Butt”. In addition, she conceived, co-adapted (with Mary Scruggs) and directed the critically acclaimed “What Every Girl Should Know…An Ode to Judy Blume” for the Annoyance stage, where she also continues to teach.
Messing has been an adjunct professor for Loyola University, DePaul University’s Theatre School, and The University of Chicago, and The School of Steppenwolf. Her standup act with her puppet, Jolly, has been featured at the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and NBC’s Late Fridays. You can hear her voice on radio and tv ads.