Devising and Creating Your Own Show (CANCELED)

In this hands-on ensemble-based workshop, participants will explore a variety of theatre-devising techniques. They will have the opportunity to apply these techniques in collaborative break-out groups to create mini-performances which will be shared in class. Students will leave the workshop with a variety of new performance and theatre-making techniques and sources of inspiration. 

Prior Knowledge/Experience

Prior improvisation experience is helpful, but no prior experience necessary.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Khristal Curtis (Trudy) is a Brooklyn-based Theatre Artist and Applied Theater practitioner. She has created, contributed to, and performed in a wide variety of new performance-based projects throughout NYC, including The Pack Collective, LEIMEY, and Strange Candy Collective (which she founded in 2013). 

From 2011-2014, in partnership with the NYU Prison Education Program and Rehabilitation Through the Arts, Khristal facilitated Devised Theater workshops, provided acting coaching, and performed alongside program participants at Woodbourne and Sing Sing Correctional Facilities.  From 2014-2016, she served as Founding Deputy Director for Drama Club, an organization that provides incarcerated and court-involved youth with Improv-based theater programming.  In 2017 she founded Devised Theatre Project, a volunteer-supported organization that offers young people in family shelters free theater classes and opportunities to devise and perform original plays. She received grants from the Awesome Foundation (2017) and Brooklyn Arts Council (2019, 2020) to support this work.

Khristal has an MA Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities from the NYU Steinhardt School and a BFA Theatre from the Actors Training Program at the University of Utah. 

Khristal is passionate about kittens, community-building, and creating art-making opportunities for communities with limited access. 

JESSICA ZODROW (Mona) has worked as a theater professional and Teaching Artist in the Portland Metro area, New York City, and the California Bay Area.  She has an MA Educational Theater from NYU and a BA Theater Arts from Southern Oregon University. From 2019 - 2022 she served as both the Managing Director & then the Director of Education for Curious Comedy Theater, where she still performs as a member of the Curious Comedy Players. She founded and was the Artistic Director of  Joy & Wonder Theatre, an intergenerational immersive theatre company, from 2017-2021.

Jessica’s study of improv, clowning and immersive theater has led to teaching workshops in Portland, Minneapolis, New York City and the Bay Area. Her focus in all types of theater is finding the joy it brings and creating characters who speak their minds while causing a great deal of mischief. 

Jessica lives here in Portland, OR and loves the rich comedy scene and especially loves teaching workshops where the goal is creation from play & connection. 

ATTENTION:

• This class will be in person at Curious Comedy Theater. All Instructors are fully vaccinated. For everyone’s safety ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE VACCINATED and be willing to show proof of vaccination in the form of their vaccination card. 


• All classes at Curious Comedy are anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-ableist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, anti-ageist class that strives to be inclusive of all experiences. We are always learning and aim to keep the class safe for everyone.


• Class minimum is 6 people. Class maximum is 15 people.


• All sales are final and Curious will be unable to issue a refund for class purchases. Curious reserves the right to change the Instructor of a class at any time, and doing so will not result in a refund. 


• We do not want money to be an obstacle. If you need financial assistance, email our Director of Education at skelly@curiouscomedy.org.