Advanced Scenework Intensive with Mark Chalfant
Ready to take your improv scenes from good to unforgettable?
In Mark Chalfant’s seven-week Advanced Scenework Intensive, you’ll delve into a rich toolkit of perspectives and techniques – all designed to sharpen your focus and raise the stakes on stage. As the Artistic/Executive Director of Washington Improv Theater, Mark will share his extensive performance and teaching experience directly to you, offering personal support to help you unlock your full potential.
This intensive provides practical tools to help you make active choices, play with dramatic tension, and improve your performances with dynamic stagecraft. Mark’s responsive curriculum is tailored to meet the unique needs of all enrolled students.
This elective is ideal for advanced students seeking new challenges and those preparing for Harold teams, ensembles, and special projects.
ABOUT MARK
Sharing a student’s discovery in improv is one of Mark’s greatest joys, which is why he has been a lead instructor in WIT’s training program since 1999. Emotional honesty and storytelling sensibility are his main jams. Mark’s teaching is informed by his experience coaching and directing dozens of WIT ensemble projects, and facilitating training sessions for WIT@Work. Mark has studied improv nationwide (in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Portland) and has pursued theater training all over DC (Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theatre Lab). Among those with whom Mark has studied are: Keith Johnstone, Barbara Scott and J. Raoul Brody, Matt Besser, Charna Halpern, Mick Napier, Jay Rhoderick, Todd Stashwick, Shira Piven, and Rebecca Drysdale.
