Instructor: Jose Gonzalez + Marisol Chavez
Saturday, October 19th - 10 am-12:30 pm
Price: $45

Overview: Calling all improvisors who aspire to be bad girls, bad boys, and bad enby-jammas! Marisol Chavez and Jose Gonzalez will lead this workshop on using physicality, movement, status, and villain archetypes to unlock our inner baddies and embiggen our improv. Get BIG! Get BAD! Get BOLD!

Jose Gonzalez [he/him/él] is a Phoenix native who helped found Arizona’s first nonprofit improv theater, The Torch Theatre, in 2007 and was deeply involved there through 2021. Over two decades, he has taught and performed in numerous festivals and events with groups like Galapagos, VerizonQwest,and Umlautilde, all across North America and parts of Europe including the Chicago Improv Festival, the Del Close Marathon, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival (Austin, Texas), Improv Fest Ireland, the Toronto International Improv Festival, and Improvaganza (Honolulu, Hawaii) among many others. In addition to performing regularly in and around Phoenix at the Bridge Improv Theater, NCT Phoenix, and Second Beat Improv Theater, Jose also hosts the storytelling & music-sharing show, Vinyl Voices; is the swing host for the Phoenix branch of The Moth StorySLAM; is a co-host of the Sweet Podtato podcast; and offers improv shows and classes via Monster Improv, which is Jose’s own little DIY record label but for improv. http://sweetpodtato.podbean.com/ http://monsterimprov.com