Interactive Performance for Improvisers
with Jeff Wirth
Sunday, February 12, 1pm-4pm (3 hours)

Are you ready to see audience members not just as observers, but as collaborators? In interactive performance spectators become spect-actors, and passive observers transform into active collaborators. Participants cease to be “props” to be moved around a stage, and instead become empowered collaborators with whom to share remarkable co-created experiences. This workshop introduces you to the techniques of interactive performance, drawn from the fields of acting, improvisation, story structure, and social psychology.
If you’re ready to engage with your audience as co-creators, come discover interactive performance with special guest instructor, Jeff Wirth.

Jeff Wirth directs the Interactive PlayLab, a New York-based company focused on training, R&D, and prototyping of live interactive story experiences. Jeff has consulted for Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, and Disney Imagineering, and in 2012 created a 24-hour immersive story experience for Lincoln Center. He wrote the book, Interactive Acting, has created over 100 interactive performances, and served for 10 years as the Director of the Interactive Performance Lab at the University of Central Florida. He has led master classes for the Chicago Improv Festival, the New York Improv Festival, and the Celebration Barn Theatre. Jeff’s eclectic background also includes ballroom dancing, computer programming, and clowning for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Learn more at www.InteractivePlayLab.com.

$45 / 3 hours / Limited Space / Class held at Hideout Studios – 2505 E 6th St, Unit C