Thursday, April 29th
6-8 p.m.
The Powerhouse Pub,
2000 Sycamore,
Cleveland, OH
$25

We've all used patterns games as a warm up - but what if you approached each and every line in your scene with a strict respect for the pattern that you and your scene partner are mutually establishing while avoiding "word association improv"? In this workshop, The New Movement Artistic Director... [read more]

Thursday, April 29th
6-8 p.m.
The Powerhouse Pub,
2000 Sycamore,
Cleveland, OH
$25

We've all used patterns games as a warm up - but what if you approached each and every line in your scene with a strict respect for the pattern that you and your scene partner are mutually establishing while avoiding "word association improv"? In this workshop, The New Movement Artistic Director Chris Trew will show you how he approaches every line in every scene - and by the end of the workshop you will have an alternative road map to take with you into all the improv you do, making your job as an improviser a little easier and a lot more fun.

This workshop has been seen at: New Orleans Improv Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Fest, Baltimore Improv Festival, Local Flavor Comedy Tour (February 2009), Dream of Meal Comedy Tour (August 2009), Tourcation Comedy Tour (2010)

Chris Trew has been called an "Improv Master" by The Onion A.V. Club, "a Tireless performer" and "Hilarious" by the Austinist, named "Austin's Most Fearless Improviser" by his peers and "Out of his Fucking mind" by the Austin Chronicle. Chris founded Studio8 in New Orleans in 2000, a sketch group that has appeared on Comedy Central's AtomTV. Part of the improviser exodus to Austin, Texas after Katrina, he was a co-founder of ColdTowne Theater there. Now he serves as co-owner and Artistic Director of The New Movement, which operates two improv theaters/training centers, one in Austin and the other in Dallas. He is also the host of the Air Sex World Championships and has appeared on an episode of "The Bad Girls Club." He once finished dead last in an Austin-American Statesman Most Eligible Bachelor poll.