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Mandy Schmieder
Instructor
Improv, Life Skills
Mandy Schmieder has been teaching improv comedy for over a decade, and currently teaches at The Peoples Improv Theater in NYC. In addition, she uses the principles of improv to teach communicatation and leadership skills to organizations all over the country. Corporate clients include NYU School of Business, Columbia School of Business, Friedman Accounting, and Bloomberg, Amgen, and others. She received her M.F.A. in Acting from UC-Irvine, where she was an Artsbridge teaching scholar. She produces & writes original content including solo shows and web series, and has performed from coast to coast. You can see her on your TV in commercials for Geico, GE, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She was a recurring guest on all four seasons of Inside Amy Schumer and is currently touring the festival circuit with her short film, Unnatural. She lives with her husband in NYC, where they’re raising two tiny humans named Teddy & Veda. www.mandyschmieder.com
Events featuring Mandy Schmieder
Classes with Mandy Schmieder
Online Level 3 Improv, 10/20
Tuesday 10/20 – Thursday 11/12
Instructor: Mandy Schmieder
In level 3 you will continue to focus on strong listening and reacting without interrupting your scene partner. Making sure “the beginning of your sentence doesn’t get in the way of the middle of theirs”. You will reinforce saying “Yes, and...!” Until you have to say “no thank you”. Work on the first-second and third beats of two person scenes as well as continuing to focus on editing by following your foot connected to your gut and heart to edit scenes at the height. Learn how to “heighten and tighten” a scene organically glued in reality to create “win-win” fun scenes to play to entertain yourself and others while “treating your partner like a genius”.