Paul Vaillancourt is the co-founder (with Charna Halpern) of the iO West and has been teaching and performing improv for close to 30 years. In that time he has appeared all over the country including such notable venues as HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Chicago’s iO (where he studied with the immortal Del Close), New York’s UCB Theater, and Austin’s Out of Bounds Festival to name a few.
Paul Vaillancourt is the co-founder (with Charna Halpern) of the iO West and has been teaching and performing improv for close to 30 years. In that time he has appeared all over the country including such notable venues as HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Chicago’s iO (where he studied with the immortal Del Close), New York’s UCB Theater, and Austin’s Out of Bounds Festival to name a few.
Paul has also had success as a writer and producer, co-creating and serving as supervising writer for the MTV hit “The Blame Game” as well as lending his writing and producing talents to a score of other shows for MTV, VH1, USA, Oxygen, Bravo and AMC.
Recently he published a book about improv called “The Triangle of the Scene” (available on iBooks and Amazon Kindle) and started producing a weekly series of videos called “Improv Tips” available on his YouTube channel PVImprov.
Friday, June 3 6pm-9pm
*WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT RESIDENCE INN WILLIAMS CENTRE 5400 E Williams Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711*
The Triangle of the Scene: In this workshop, veteran improviser, teacher, and author of the book “The Triangle of the Scene” Paul Vaillancourt brings his nearly 30 years of experience to the basics of your scene work. He will help you get a strong handle on the game of the scene and help you understand how to use it to strengthen every aspect of your scene work including – how to connect to your partner, what to do next, how to use the where, etc., etc. All of these problems and more are solved by setting up the “triangle of the scene.”
He will also share great tools like HAVE, SAY, DO, and YES IN SPITE as well as the principle of WORK, HOME, and PLAY. All good work on stage flows from strong basic technique and in this class that’s what you’ll get!
*WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT RESIDENCE INN WILLIAMS CENTRE 5400 E Williams Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711*
Maximum number of students for the workshop is 16. Students must be 18 years or older. Tuition is non-refundable.
Workshop sales close June 3 at Noon.
Unscrewed Theater is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching, performing, and producing all forms of live improvisational theater in Tucson, AZ.