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Laughter is not just the best medicine. It’s a highly effective teaching, learning and team-building strategy with limitless classroom applications. Under the guidance of Laughing Matters skilled teaching artists, students may create a reader’s theatre play, write mathematical poetry or explore the New World with Balboa and his courageous crew. The interview techniques of improvisational comedy can also be used for peer counseling, mentoring and team-building. It’s up to you. Just pick a topic and improvise.
Laughing Matters
Laughing Matters formed in 1985 out of its members' collective love of improvisational acting.
Tommy Futch, Ryan Girard, Jamie Moore, Marc Farley, Amber Nash, Tara Ochs, Perry Frost, Betty Hart and Eve Krueger make up Laughing Matters. Their backgrounds ranging from teaching improv to all ages to acting on stage, film and television to serving as Director of Improvisation at a local theatre.
Laughing Matters' mission is to entertain, educate, and enlighten while providing a fun and interactive environment.
No matter which path that brought them to improv, the members of Laughing Matters move audiences with their creative minds, their flexible brains and bodies, and their ability to adapt to any situation and find humor in it.
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Grade Level:
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Program Type:
Residency
Audience Limit:
30
Duration:
5 Days
Requirements:
Classroom artists can rearrange
Cost:
Residency: $1600
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