• Explore how to be more mindfully engaged in order to learn to trust your authentic behaviors to gain elevated skills in active listening & situational awareness.
  • Discover ways to create a bridge between instincts and logic in order to utilize relationship building to more effectively communicate in scenes and in life.
  • Develop character background & rediscover yourself and how you process, present, and provide information through story.
  • Learn how to support a collective set of goals & objectives through multi-tasking & high-level observations.

Tuition: $400
Duration: 8 weeks, 3 hour sessions
Maximum of 10 students

Find Your Session

2 sessions available

01/13-03/03
Tuesday
(6:30PM - 9:30PM)
Taught by Kirsten King
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03/24-05/12
Tuesday
(6:30PM - 9:30PM)
Taught by Kirsten King
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Meet the Teacher

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Kirsten King

Kirsten is the proud product of a military family and as an Atlanta-based actor, writer, and creative director, she brings over 20 years of improv, teaching, & performance experience to the Alliance Theatre Education team. She graduated from Auburn University with a BFA in Theatre - Performance & studied at the Circle In The Square summer conservatory on Broadway. She teaches a variety of youth, teen, & adult improv and acting classes through a variety of creative collaborations with public, private, charter, homeschool, online, & other arts education community partnerships. Kirsten has trained in Meisner, Shakespeare, classic works, musical improv, and both short and long-form improv. Kirsten is a member of the Atlanta based improv group Dark Side Of The Room and some of her credits include sharing the stage with comedy colleague Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Mark Meer, and Mark Kendall & she was a chosen performer for the Kenan Thompson Atlanta Comedy Showcase.

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