Chris George
San Diego, California
Chris George is a graduate of the iO, Annoyance, and Chicago Improv Studio (CIS) training centers in Chicago, and is a founder of the National Comedy Theater’s (NCT) Sunday Company, Finest City Improv (FCI) (San Diego’s first dedicated long form theater) serving as Assistant Artistic Director and designing the first curriculum, and the Stage Monkeys SD (San Diego’s original Harold team), the latter of which he coached and directed for 5 and half years.
He has taught shortform, longform, and musical improvisation at all levels, from basic scene work to forms to advanced performance at FCI and Sidestage Improv (now Old Town Improv Company) in San Diego. He has been a guest instructor at NCT, the Dallas Comedy Festival, Tampa Bay Improv Festival, the Spectacles Improv Engine (Orange County, CA), Endurance Improv Festival (Madison, WI), the New Movement Theater (New Orleans, LA), Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI), the University of Texas Dallas’ Advanced Improvisation Program, the Countdown Improv Festival, and the Chicago Improv Studio.
He is a company member of the Odd’s Bodkins Shakespeare Company; recent roles include Antipholus of Ephesus (Comedy of Errors), Berowne (Love’s and Labour’s), and Former President Bill Clinton (Make America Gag Again)
He has been teaching since 2008 and currently lives in Chicago where plays on the CIS House Team Stall Stars.
2019 Workshop: It’s Not Object Work, It’s Object Play!
Object and Environment Work: it’s one thing to say it, it’s another thing to do it, and it’s a whole other thing to do it meaningfully. This improv tool is often taught, but it’s rarely taught in a way that shows you to make intentional choices. In this workshop, you will play with finding meaning in mixing drinks, smoking cigarettes, cutting vegetables, and anything else you can think of. Discover the depth you didn’t even know objects and the environment could give you. Finger guns, fist telephones, and scissor-hands will be provided in class, so feel free to leave yours at home.
