Improv Comedy Workshop

Summer Improv Comedy Workshop

Ages 10-14

Directed by Ty Goshorn


Overview

Young actors will join Acting for Young People’s resident Improv experts, for a week of comedy and creative thinking! Taking inspiration from classic improvisation styles and favorite theater games, actors will learn in-depth techniques for creating short and long-form improv, and develop characters and story lines for sketch comedy and scene work.

Writing supplies needed: pencils, pens, and a notebook

Ages: 10-14

Dates:
Session 1: June 19 – 23
Session 2: July 31 – Aug 4, 2023
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Tuition: $475

Early Bird Discount: Register by May 15, for $10 off

Location: Mason Fairfax Campus, deLaski Performing Arts Building/Music Theater Building

Covid Safety Information

June 19 – 23 Session

July 31 – Aug 4 Session

Program Faculty


Tylor Goshorn, Acting Instructor

Ty Goshorn
Instructor

Coming Soon

Mary Lechter Staff Member

Mary Lechter
MCAA Executive Director and Faculty at Mason’s School of Theater

A graduate of University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Speech Communications, Mary has been working professionally as an actor in the metropolitan Washington-area, Los Angeles, and New York since 1985. She has worked at Washington area theaters including Theater of the First Amendment, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, and Source Theatre. Television, radio and film credits include ABC’s All My ChildrenBarry Levinson’s Avalon, Diesel Films’ Dracula’s Mother, the MGM/Lionsgate thriller Hit and Run, and several spots for NPR’s Morning Edition.

Mary founded AFYP in 1997, and has seen the company grow from being its only teacher with a sporadic program schedule in rented spaces to where it is today: a year-round program with a full staff, working in conjunction with Potomac Arts Academy, for which she is Associate Director.

She is a longtime member of Mason’s School of Theater faculty in the areas of Performance and Theater Education. She was named a 2013 “Teacher of Distinction” and was a 2014 TEDxGeorgeMasonU speaker (“Magic Moments: the Transformative Power of  Theater“). She previously taught at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her professional memberships include The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actor’s Equity Association, and the Educational Theatre Association.

Mary’s directing credits include An Experiment with an Air Pump and Shakespeare in Hollywood (George Mason University); Still Beating Hearts and A Godless Man (Theater of the First Amendment First Light Festival); Happy Holidays, Charlie Brown, 101 Dalmatians, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Willy Wonka, Jr.; Peter Pan, Jr.; A Seussified Christmas Carol; Alice in Wonderland, Jr. (AFYP).

Notes


The Academy will be closed for Spring Break from Monday, April 3rd to Saturday, April 8.

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