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Spolin Center Newsletters Volume 2 Issue 3 Fall 2003Inside This Issue:
North Bend, WA Actor and improv teacher Gary Schwartz announces the opening of the North Bend Studio Theater on the second floor of the Masonic Unity Lodge, 119 North Bend Way, North Bend WA. Mr. Schwartz is the protégé of Viola Spolin, the inventor of Theater Games acting training that developed such notable actors as Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Alan Arkin, Barbara Harris, Valerie Harper and hundreds of others. Mr. Schwartz lives in North Bend and is the artistic director of The Spolin Players Improv Troupes playing in both Seattle and Los Angeles. The Center will offer classes in Improvisation and Story Theater as well as scene study, using Theater Games as the training method. It will also present monthly performances of The Spolin Players Northwest improv company as well as other comedy improv groups and entertainers. Actor, writer, director John Gonzalez and actress wife, Yvette Hill will also be producing partners along with Jim and Lori Tobin of Duvall, WA. Snoqualmie Valley Performing Arts Coop planned for community outreach Intuitive Learning Systems will open a Performing Arts Coop in the Snoqualmie Valley of Washington state. It will offer classes in Improvisation and Story Theater as well as scene study, using Theater Games as the training method. The school will be in the center of Snoqualmie at the corner of river and railroad street in the educational wing of the United Methodist Church. The center will also present monthly performances of The Spolin Players Northwest improv company as well as other comedy improv groups and entertainers at the North Bend Studio theater located at 119 North Bend Way next door to Robertiello's. Enrollment for classes in improvisation for young actors, ages 9-17 begin in November. Classes for adults are also being offered. NO Experience is necessary for any theater games class. For more information call 425-417-5667 or visit www.spolin.com. Gary’s mentor and teacher was Viola Spolin, known as the mother of Improvisation. In the 1950’s, she and her son Paul Sills developed the first improv group in the United States — Chicago’s famed Second City. Gary began his association with Ms. Spolin in 1977 and has conducted many lecture demonstrations of Spolin Games techniques to various groups and companies across the U.S. and Canada. He is co-founder and director of The Spolin Games Players, a group of established actors (including Dan Castelanetta, the voice of Homer Simpson) performing Improv in Los Angeles since 1988. Winners of a DramaLogue Award for best ensemble, the L.A. Times called the show "brilliant and exhilarating." LA Magazine gave the show 4 1/2 stars. Gary has pursued a dramatic acting career, highlighted by his performance in the award winning film, QUEST FOR FIRE. On television, Gary has a co-starring role to Ben Vareen on Hallmark Properties' Emmy winning ZOOBILEE ZOO as Bravo Fox. He is half of the comedy team, SCHWARTZ & CHUNG. From 1987-1995 they performed in Los Angeles and around the U.S. appearing on TV numerous times with their comedy. They were regular contributors to AMERICA’S FUNNIEST PEOPLE in nine original comedy segments called “Cool Ways to Scare Your Mom.”Gary is currently a voice actor in Seattle. He has done voice over work on the series Star Trek for the past 15 years and has provided voices for over 600 movies and TV shows including the area's own "Twin Peaks" and "Northern Exposure". Thanks to the Masons of North BendWe would like to thank the members of Unity Lodge 198 in North Bend for allowing us to use their meeting room as our new theater. We anticipate a long and happy association with the Masonic Temple of North Bend and hope to share many wonderful shows with the residents of the Snoqualmie Valley. Thanks to all the members and especially local residents John Glazier and Ernest Jenner. Intuitive Learning Systems is a non-profit theater arts organization devoted to igniting the spontaneous creative spirit that exists in all people. Our performances, public classes and customized workshops invite people of every age and background to explore the joy and the intuitive power of improvisation as conceived and structured by Viola Spolin. Paul Sills' 2004 Summer Spolin Games Intensive: Legendary director, teacher Paul Sills teaches Spolin Games
week long intensives at his farm in Wisconsin. |
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