Michael Gellman Workshop – Silence Is Golden – Improvised Acting

Sunday, March 5, 2017

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There is a reason we call it a play and not a serious!  Put the fun back into your acting.  Improvisation has been for centuries a theater created by and for actors. Exciting and inspired performance comes from the ground up.  Participants will discover and practice a strong approach to their acting with and with out text. Skills developed in this workshop will apply to auditions, text work, play development as well as improvisational performance.


Maximum number of students for each workshop is 16. Students must be 18 years or older. Tuition is non-refundable.

All workshops held at Unscrewed Theater unless otherwise noted.

Unscrewed Theater is located at 3244 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85716 (across from The Loft Cinema, next to Fronimo’s). Parking and entrance are located in the rear of the building. Turn in to the Walgreen’s parking lot and go to the left around the building.

Unscrewed Theater is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching, performing, and producing all forms of live improvisational theater in Tucson, AZ.


About Michael Gellman

Michael J Gellman now resides in Ontario Canada and is Artistic Director of The Process Theatre. He teaches at Loyalist College as well as Master Workshops for Second City International and Artistic New Directions NYC.  He is an alumnus of the Second City mainstage and was a resident director for Second City in Canada and the USA for 25 years. He was Artistic Director of the Second City Toronto where his shows were nominated for 7 Dora Mavor Moore Awards including twice for Outstanding Direction, nominated for Best Director for Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award, and won a Chalmers Award for Best Director. He is a senior faculty and founding member of the Second City Training Center where he was a Program Head and also Director of the NY training Center.

Michael was an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago teaching Acting For Directors in the Film Directing department and designed and taught Improvisation and Acting III for the Comedy Studies department. In addition to Second City and Columbia College he has taught and designed classes and workshops in directing, acting and improvisation since 1976 at such notable institutions as: Actors Centre London, The Audition Centre, Victory Gardens Training Centre, Act One Conservatory and Loyola Law School as well as master workshops for hundreds of Universities, festivals, theatre companies and improv groups around the world. He is credited with originating “Long Form” Improvisation and his book “Process: An Improvisers Journey” (Northwestern University Press) co-authored with Mary Scruggs is a summary of his workshops on improvisational training.

His former credits include: co-founder and company member of Rendition Theatre, Artistic Associate at Organic Theatre, founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Works and Windy City Workshop and Co-Artistic Director of Wavelength.  Since 1969 Michael has worked as an actor, director, writer and stage manager.  He is a member of WGAw, AEA, Aftra-SAG, CAEA and ACTRA.

Over the past 40 years Mr. Gellman has directed, taught, and/or acted with: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, George Wendt, Del Close, Betty Thomas, Dan Castellaneta, Charna Halpern, Mick Napier, Armando Diaz, Jimmy Carrane,  David Pasquesi, Keegan-Michael Key, Linda Cash, Pat McKenna, Joel Murray, David Razowsky, Susan Messing, Bruce Pirrie, Kathryn Greenwood, Ron James, Joe Bill and many others.