Beauty, in its deeper sense, comes from meaning. In order to find beauty in our improv sets, we need to find meaning. Two of our greatest tools for creating meaningful art are metaphor and theme. This workshop will focus on developing meaningful dialogue through metaphor, and utilizing theme to find satisfying endings to our stories. One doesn't need to recite rhymes to deliver poetry.

Prerequisite: 1+ years of training & onstage experience

Cost: $60.00

Length: 3 hours

All proceeds are donated to Snow Day’s fundraising goal.

OLIVER GEORGIOU

Oliver is passionate about unscripted theatre and the cross-section that exists between acting and improvisation. He runs SODA Impro through which he produces Played Out, a three-act unscripted play with an emphasis on emotionally grounded, character-driven scenes. He is also one-half of Jan & George with Reid Janisse. Specialty course offerings in Toronto, Detroit, and Los Angeles have included: Viewpoints, Mindfulness, and Meisner for the Actor Improviser; Stanislavski and Scene Dynamics; Impulse, Insight, and Emotion; The Game In Narrative; and Intro to Viewpoints for Improvisation. This past year he was a featured instructor at the Dramatic Improv Festival in Chicago, Le Grand Yes And in Montreal, and the Snow Day Improv Marathon in Detroit. This year he's delighted to be a featured instructor at Improv Utopia East. He's the regular coach for Duck Confetti, and is an occasional guest coach forHinProv and other troupes around Toronto.

The award-winning Vampire Zombies... From Space! just completed a limited theatre run in cities across North America, including LA, New York, and the Senate Theater in Detroit, and will be available for streaming later this year. He's delighted to have worked so closely with Bygone Theatre in the past few years on live stage productions of The Rear Window, The Birds, and Wayne & Shuster, Live! He also helped develop the roles of Edwin in Kristen Da Silva's The Bluff (Theatre Orangeville) and Mr. Gordon in Vishesh Abeyratne's workshop of Blood Offering (Alma Matter Productions). Oliver returns to Detroit biannually for the Snow Day Improv Marathon and the Detroit Improv Festival. He's an alumnus of Second City Toronto House Co, and can be found sporting a horrible pseudo-Irish accent in the Canadian Podcast Award-winning series Caverns & Comedians.

Instagram: @o_georgiou