Acting for the Improviser: Dynamic Tension

Using acting exercises we’ll explore what improvisation can be when we drop our guards and allow ourselves to live on stage, see and be seen. What opportunities are we rushing through? How can we pull ourselves, our partners and our audience into presence?

Ande?l Sudik is a director, improviser, actor and writer based in L.A. and Chicago known for her explosive energy onstage and in the classroom as well as her experiential teaching style. She is a faculty member of the Second City where she teaches sketch writing and improvisation remotely and iO where she teaches summer intensives in Chicago. She is an alum of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the Second City Touring and resident ETC Company and has directed Sketch, Improvisation and Solo shows at The Public House, Annoyance, iO, Lyric Hyperion, Thymele and Second City and Edinburgh Fringe. Before 2020 she could be found traveling, teaching and performing all over the states as well as across Europe in festivals and privately. Now she can be found doing… the same, but sometimes over zoom.