Valerie Ward

Workshop Instructor

Valerie Ward has been a fixture of the Austin Improv scene for over 20 years. She has traveled the world teaching and performing and co-authored “Do It Now,” a book on narrative improv, with the rest of her ensemble, Parallelogramophonograph. She is as comfortable playing the upper crust of 17th-century French society as she is doing off-the-cuff abstract performance art with her absurdly funny trio “Echo Lake.” She also has a fiercely analytical story brain, which she put to good use in creating and directing shows such as “A Bedtime Gorey,” “The Dahl House,” and “A Deed So Dark.”

Classes with Valerie Ward

In-Person PGraph’s Mini Signature Intensive SAT 7/1, SUN 7/2 10a-1p

Improv

Saturday 7/1 – Sunday 7/2

Instructors: Kareem Badr, Roy Janik, Kaci Beeler, Valerie Ward

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1-Day Intensive: $75 2-Day Intensive: $139 Join Kaci, Kareem, Roy, and Valerie for a 6-hour improv intensive you don’t want to miss. Intuitive narrative improvisation, long-form improv that tells an entire story, is the bread-and-butter of the award-winning work Parallelogramophonograph does.

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In-Person Playing the Villain: PGraph Workshop SUN 4-6 PM

Improv

Sunday 7/2 4:00 pm

Instructors: Kareem Badr, Valerie Ward

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$60 +fees

Villainy: Being Bad Onstage

Learn how fun it is to be bad. In this workshop, Kareem Badr and Valerie Ward from PGraph will teach you how to play downright evil characters on stage that the audience will love to hate. It's easy enough to play a 2-dimensional bad guy, but for true evil to shine in all its dark glory, your characters must be rooted in truth, and be unique individuals.

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