Beschreibung

Your life is fabulous and unique and let’s find a way to share that as a source for improv. This workshop starts with a deep dive into first person monologues with Susan that are followed by John’s direction into an immersive reality, where monologues can support and punctuate your scenes. All levels. Susan Messing a NJ native and graduate of Northwestern University’s Theatre School, has been an improviser and comedian for over 39 years. She is an alumna of the iO Theatre, Chicago’s Second City MainStage, and a founding member of Chicago’s infamous Annoyance Theatre. Susan has created and taught her curriculum at iO/iO West, The Annoyance, The Second City, and around the globe. Susan has been an adjunct instructor  for Loyola University, DePaul University’s Theatre School, The School at Steppenwolf, and currently teaches for The University of Chicago. Her standup act with her puppet, Jolly, was featured at the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and NBC’s Late Fridays. Her most impressive bit movie role was as a bad stripper in a halo brace in Let’s Go to Prison!  She performed open runs at the iO with Blaine Swen in’Blessing,’ and with Norm Holly in ‘Molly,’ at The Annoyance in her critically acclaimed show, Messing With a Friend, and with The Boys at The Second City. Other credits include all five years of Just For Laughs in their Chicago residency and presenting ‘Braving The Unknown,’ a TedXTalk 2014 at the University of Chicago.  She often plays with her ride or die, Rachael Mason. She is currently touring with the brilliant John Lehr around the country and around the world, and continues to teach and perform where she is asked because otherwise it is rude and presumptuous. John Lehr’s critically acclaimed “Comedic Lectures” solo performances have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. Lehr regularly performs stand-up comedy and MC/Hosts events around the country.