Explore comedy not as the goal of interactions but as a consequence of your connection to yourself, your character, your partner and the scene as it unfolds, from master teacher, Joe Bill!
From Joe: “This workshop focuses on acting in improvisational scenes. I’ll put you in repetitions with partners so you can feel how listening through an emotion (or mood or psychological state), with a willingness to change, can lead to “honest interactions”. You will feel connected, be believable and able to evoke a variety of emotions from yourselves and your audience while also mining from psychological depth.
This workshop will be equally useful for actors and improvisers alike and will include some general and a little bit of individual feedback.”
About Joe,
Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Improvised Storytelling andScenic, Longform & Duo Improvisation in North America today. He is one of the founding members of Annoyance Theater Chicago where, for 12 years, he performed in and/or directed more than 60 different shows. Joe is ½ of the first touring Improv Duoin North America, BASSPROV, created in 2000 with Mark Sutton. They are still performing at Festivals and theater engagements globally 25 years later. Since thenJoe’s been touring all over the world teaching, directing, and improvising with several other amazing Duo Partners like Patti Stiles (Our Play), Jill Bernard (SCRAM!),Stacey Hallal (Stacey & Joe, We Slept Together) Lee White (Paradigm), Heather Urquart (Blues Hammer), Felipe Ortiz (Les Disciplinos) and David Razowsky (Razowsky & Bill), ALL in different, original formats and styles.Over the last 2 years, Joe has been touring his solo show, Surviving Consciousness:Lessons learned from Cancer, LSD & Michael Jordan, both in the USA & abroad. He is the creator and host of Story Chain, a virtual (and now sometimes live!), 90-minute, international story sharing event that he developed in 2020 during the Pandemic. He has created or co-created many Longform formats that he teaches and directs at theaters and festivals all over the world, most notably The BAT, The SCRAMBLE and variations of Armando and other classic formats. Joe was the Director of CorporateTraining at iO Chicago for 15 years and started training and performing there in 1985.He was a Guest Artist in Residence at The Second City Training Center & Conservatory where he taught intensives in Duo Improvisation and Improvisation for Actors for 10 years. Joe has taught and performed on every continent on earth, except for Antarctica which remains on his bucket list.