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Scriptless for the Moment: Writing the Collaborative Play (or Musical) through Improv

Theatre Delicatessan
LONDON United Kingdom

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Scriptless for the Moment: Writing the Collaborative Play (or Musical) through Improv

This workshop is a crash course in how one can take a nugget of an idea for a play or musical and turn it into an original comedic narrative.

Using methods developed over his 8 years working at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, under Artistic Director, Mick Napier, Tim Paul will help you bring your ideas for a narrative piece into fruition, From Pitch to Performance, this workshop will focus on everything from outlining your initial idea, casting, character development, workshopping scenes/monologues through improv & working collaboratively with writers, actors & director. All participants should bring a Smartphone (or any other recording device) as well as a single paragraph pitch of an ORIGINAL idea for a play or musical. Also, participants should be prepared to do some improvisation, so experience is a plus, but by no means necessary.

### About the instructor

Tim Paul is a Chicago-based Director/Writer/Improviser, who has worked professionally with the Annoyance Theatre and Second City for the last 8 years as an actor, writer, teacher & director. Currently, Tim is one of the Resident Directors at the Annoyance, where he has been involved in over dozen original plays, musicals and sketch revues, including Fisting:Period Piece, My So-Called Afterlife and Escape From Ground Zero. The Chicago Reader said, "Paul is definitely a writer/director to watch out for."