Brought to you by Searcy's Center on the Square and Marty Shutter. April 23rd - May 4th. Classes fit around 15 people, registration begins April 2nd at 10am.
The Natural State Improv Camp is a series of six improv workshops and rehearsals with sessions for youth and adults hosted by the Center on the Square in Searcy, Arkansas. The youth class, designed for ages 10-15, is a play-based introduction to theater using improv games, theater exercises, and musical scenes. Young actors can expect to explore improvisational theater with an approach focused on
techniques honed on stages and in classes over the centuries. The second class, designed for ages 16 and up, works along with the aforementioned to build an ensemble capable of hosting their own improvised performances and sustaining an improv troupe. Again using games, exercises and music, the adults turn to improvised scene work, and finally long-form improv to build the repertoire of games, improv forms and styles that will be the basis of their future shows. The classes have been designed and are taught by actor/improvisor Marty Shutter. The total two-week cost is $100, culminating in a Friday, May 4th evening performance at the Center on the Square in Searcy. Class days and times are below. For more information, please contact the Center on the Square at 501.368.0111. DATES & TIMES
Natural State Improv Camp
Monday, April 23rd - Thursday, April 26th. Monday, April 30th, Tuesday, May 1st. Youth: 4-6pm. Adults: 6:30-8:30pm. Rehearsal: TBD
Show: Friday, May 4th 7pm. (Suggested donation to Center on the Square: $10)
Registration: April 1st. (501.368.0111)
Marty Shutter is an actor, musician, writer, and teacher and has been studying, performing, and directing improv for for fifteen years. For the last eight years in the world's capitol of improvisational theater, Chicago, Marty has performed in the Second City's House Improv Ensemble, TWISTY, for the Playground Theatre's RECESS, written and performed several original sketch comedies and plays and has performed musical improvisation at the iO Theater, Comedy Sportz, Studio BE and several other theaters around town with his collection of musicians known to Chicago as Astronauts in Space and Runners Talk Running. He is represented by the fiercest, most wonderful, shortest agent in town, Marisa Paonessa, has trained with some of the most respected teachers of improvisational theater today, performs regularly with Chicago's bounty of talents and has developed a beginner-friendly approach to the art that works to encourage and strengthen the actor's natural improvisor. He also understands that last sentence was choppy and long, but doesn't know how to sell himself otherwise. Marty lives in Chicago with his dog Marley and will be in Searcy, his High School Alma Mater, for a month before heading out on the road to make a film. He loves pizza, rock and roll, kindness, books and beaches.
