KCIF19 Workshops - Narrative Improv for Heroes w/ Chris George
The "Hero's Journey" is a familiar storytelling technique, and this backbone of narrative storytelling can be found in a huge number of popular stories, from Ghostbusters to When Harry Met Sally. Learning this backbone, how to recognize its individual beats, when/how to deviate, and how to adapt the story beats for individual genres (and subgenres) can take your improvised storytelling from "zero" to "hero" in no time.
Recommended for Advanced Improvisers!
Chris George is San Diego’s original longform improvisation instructor and has been performing improv since 2003.
He is a graduate of the iO, Annoyance, and Chicago Improv Studio (CIS) training centers in Chicago, and is a founder of the National Comedy Theater’s (NCT) Sunday Company, Finest City Improv (FCI) (San Diego’s first dedicated long form theater) serving as Assistant Artistic Director and designing the first curriculum, and the Stage Monkeys SD (San Diego’s original Harold team), the latter of which he coached and directed for 5 and half years. CG also founded the San Diego Improv Festival and has served as Festival Director and Program Chair.
CG has toured extensively, performing at over two dozen festivals across the US and Canada with Mike and Chris and Merit Badge, or with his one man show, I Am the Show.
He has been teaching since 2008, and currently lives in Chicago where plays on the CIS House Team Stall Stars.
The "Hero's Journey" is a familiar storytelling technique, and this backbone of narrative storytelling can be found in a huge number of popular stories, from Ghostbusters to When Harry Met Sally. Learning this backbone, how to recognize its individual beats, when/how to deviate, and how to adapt the story beats for individual genres (and subgenres) can take your improvised storytelling from "zero" to "hero" in no time.
Recommended for Advanced Improvisers!
Chris George is San Diego’s original longform improvisation instructor and has been performing improv since 2003.
He is a graduate of the iO, Annoyance, and Chicago Improv Studio (CIS) training centers in Chicago, and is a founder of the National Comedy Theater’s (NCT) Sunday Company, Finest City Improv (FCI) (San Diego’s first dedicated long form theater) serving as Assistant Artistic Director and designing the first curriculum, and the Stage Monkeys SD (San Diego’s original Harold team), the latter of which he coached and directed for 5 and half years. CG also founded the San Diego Improv Festival and has served as Festival Director and Program Chair.
CG has toured extensively, performing at over two dozen festivals across the US and Canada with Mike and Chris and Merit Badge, or with his one man show, I Am the Show.
He has been teaching since 2008, and currently lives in Chicago where plays on the CIS House Team Stall Stars.