NOTE – Auditing prior to the start of the first class is highly recommended for this class.
Also, all students are expected to acquire and read Ivana Chubbuck’s, The Power of the Actor, prior to attending the 1st class.

With Ivana Chubbuck Studio-accredited teacher, Jerri Tubbs. Jerri has been a member of Ivana’s studio since 2007 in Los Angeles and we’re proud to have her at Drama Inc!

This class is open to students who are new to this technique and it’s vocabulary.

In October of 2004 Penguin Books published Ivana’s book, The Power of the Actor. The book became an instant success, spending weeks on the Los Angeles Times top ten Bestsellers List. For more than a year it was the number one selling book about acting at Barnes and Noble. Currently her book is being adopted for use as a textbook in many colleges and universities across the country, as well as having been translated into a number of languages around the world, including Spanish, Hebrew, Romanian, Italian, Danish, Russian and soon to be Chinese.

This technique maintains a focus on producing and nurturing working actors in a rigorous professional environment. It is our mission to empower our students with the tools to become successful and to make dynamic, empowered choices in their work.

In this class students will break down the text according to “The Power of the Actor” – 12 steps, and all of the emotional exercises in the book and then apply it to scene work. The goal is to get every student to learn how to be proactive and win an objective in the scene while creating a dynamic performance. While there is no filming element to this class, the technique is designed especially through the use of inner monologue and inner objects to be captured, truthfully for the camera.

*Read more about The Chubbuck Technique here: http://www.ivanachubbuck.com

***All Adult classes 18 and over unless otherwise specified.

contact@ryankingcomedy.com

This class will use theater games, character work and group scenes to teach the fundamentals of improvisation.  Students will learn to trust their instincts, make confident choices and work as a team in order to create original stories in a shared environment.

Ryan King is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, improviser and improv instructor from the
southeast. He won Third Coast Comedy Club’s “Best Improviser” award for 2017, is a
five-time winner of the Nashville’s Funniest Comic competition and a five-time winner
of the Luxury Prestige III sketch comedy competition. He can been seen as “Opie
Wallace” on CMT’s CMA promos, as the spokesman for Tennessee Wesleyan
University, as “Herb Kreskin” on CMT’s “Sun Records” and in commercials for the
Tennessee Lottery, Brett Eldredge, Smile Direct, Tractor Supply Co. and iProNetwork.

He graduated from The Second City Chicago’s Improvisation & Comedic
Acting program and studied acting under, Caroline Locorriere at the Nashville Acting
Studio. He has studied improv with Kevin McDonald of the Kids in the Hall, Erica
Elam, Kevin Reome, Mark Piebenga, Matt Mages, Lisa Baney Winters and Scott
Goldstein of Second City, Grant Collins of Improv Olympic, Ian Covell of the Highwire
Comedy Co., Justin Peters and Kelly Buttermore of The Pit and many others.

As an improviser, he has performed with Third Coast Comedy Club Mainstage, Court
Improv, Nashville Improv Company, LOL Nashville, Franklin Improv All-Stars, Incident
2, Crash Armando Team, Lukas Lamb Live, Pudding Parade, Geek Media Expo and
Furry Anchors.

As a standup, he has opened for Kevin McDonald, Chris Killian, Dusty Slay and Josh
Phillips while performing at Zanies, South Street Comedy Club, Third Coast Comedy
Club, and The Gilda Radner Foundation. He was part of helping Nashville Comedians
break the world record for the longest comedy show.
He has taught improv at Third Coast Comedy Club, Actor-Com, Centennial Performance
Studios, Nashville Voice-Over Exchange, Association of Talent Development, Nashville
After Zone Alliance, YMCA, Girls Inc., Station Hill Youth Arts Program and High Leigh
Convention Center in Hertfordshire, England.