CLASS INFORMATION
Bethlehem Visitor Center at SteelStacks presented by Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Jefferson Health | 711 E. First Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
- January 25 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
- Ages: 18+
- Event Rules
*times subject to change
SteelStacks Improv Comedy Festival Workshop
Live improv performance is a visual medium, let’s start activating that creative space! If you’re bored by ‘talking heads’ scenes, this workshop will break you out of your rut. Students will learn and practice physical theatre tools to gain insight into how to animate their scenework. This workshop plays with comedic tension, comedic timing, and stage composition to make every scene look and feel like something grand is happening.
Nick Gillette is an award winning physical theatre artist, co-founder emeritus of Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, and since 2006 an instructor and performer of improv in Philadelphia. He teaches narrative medicine at Temple University. He is a graduate of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, a 2014 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks resident artist, a 2016 Colgate University Christian A. Johnson resident artist, and a former resident artist at the Philadelphia School for Circus Arts, and winner of the 2021 FringeArts Audience Choice Award for best comedy. With Almanac he has collaborated to devise and perform Communitas (2014), Nightfall (2014), The Fleecing (2015), Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes (2015 & 2017), IAMMADEOFSTARS (2016), Exile2588 (2016), Demon Magick Seminar (2017), and J/J/J/J (2018). Co-creator of The Wadsworth Constant, running since 2015. He has performed with Cabaret Red Light, BRAT Productions, Lighting Rod Special, Pig Iron Theatre Co., Alex Bechtel, International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City, Vancouver International Improv Festival’s International Ensemble, and Philly Improv Theater. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.