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Playing Across the Gender Spectrum with Integrity with Jill Eickmann
Playing Across the Gender Spectrum with Integrity with Jill Eickmann
Are your choices when playing the opposite sex coming off as stereotypical or lacking specificity and truth? Are you afraid to play a different gender for fear of offending? Together we will agree to a judgment free environment where we can make mistakes and support one another in improvising characters with greater specificity and authenticity. Through the use of improvisation and games, will explore the infinite ways to express gender and how to comfortably and truthfully play characters across the gender spectrum. Share your personal experiences as a human being and improvisor regarding gender identity and expression in order to improvise characters honestly and specifically.
We will practice embodying spontaneous characters and making clear bold choices to our scene partners. Listen carefully to your fellow players choices in regards to gender expression, and add specificity to your characters unique ways of expressing gender to clearly communicate your ideas.
We will practice space object activities adding subtlety and nuance to our characters unique gender expression, and provide feedback to one another in order to help our audience feel seen and head. For the more honest and genuine we can be, the greater the chance for an empathic exchange in a theatrical community. Experience both the freedom and responsibility in stepping into the shoes of another.
Jill Eickmann is the Artistic Director of Leela, a holistic San Francisco based improvisational theater and training center. She is also a Producer and Board Member for The San Francisco Improv Festival and Executive Producer for Femprovisor Fest: SF's all women's improv festival. Jill has directed over 100 original productions. She has taught her signature style of improvisation to thousands of improvisors at Leela, EndGames Improv, Pan Theater, San Francisco Comedy College, Stanford University (GSB), the University of Chicago (GSB) California Improv Festival, Improvaganza: Hawaii Festival of Improv, San Diego Improv Festival, The San Francisco Improv Festival and the Gainesville Improv Festival. Jill Eickmann currently performs in Shades of Grey, an improvised duo with Marcus Sams and Leela's Armando Company. She directs many ensembles through Leela's Performing Improv Ensembles (PIE) Program. Most recently she taught a six week private improv class to cast members of Disneys The Lion King - Broadway Tour. Jill was the founder of the three person improv ensemble, Road Dawgz, where she performed with Tony Award Winner Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Law Tarello (Photo City Improv- Rochester) throughout NYC. She studied in New York and Chicago with some of the best from Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB), The Second City, IO (Formerly Improv Olympic), Annoyance Productions, and Magnet Theater. Jill is also an in-demand play therapist, psychotherapist, drama therapist, and self-revelatory theatre director who continues to research and teach the psychological implications and therapeutic benefits of improvisation. She also enjoys facilitating workshops with SF local start-ups, established companies, and business leaders to support a positive working environment while fostering boundless collective creativity. Past clients include The Clorox Company, Adobe, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google (among others.) Jill blogs at www.femprovisor.com
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LocationMCL Chicago (View)
3110 N Sheffield Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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