Controlled Chaos

CONTROLLED CHAOS

Many improv scenes and sets can be “technically correct,” yet still somehow suffer from not being dynamic enough. This workshop will focus on methods to introduce a little bit of chaos into your scene work, making unexpected and bold choices that keep the improviser ahead of the audience, and foster a greater sense of play. It’s important to be able to stay on the rails, but it’s also important to jump out of the cart and fall down the mountain every now and again.

Instructor: Zeke Nicholson (of White Women)
White Women is Lamar Woods, Ify Nwadiwe, Ronnie Adrian, Ishmel Sahid, Zeke Nicholson and Carl Tart. They are a group of highly trained performers who all happen to be black. They host a monthly show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in LA called "Your Token Friend", whose guests have included Lamorne Morris, Natasha Rothwell, Reggie Watts, Tim Meadows and more. Along with having done shows at pretty much every improv venue in LA, WW also performs annually at both the Del Close Marathon in NYC and Sketchfest in San Francisco. Additionally, they were headliners at last year's Out of Bounds Festival in Austin, Texas. Aside from improv, White Women's members write for shows like "New Girl" on FOX, "AP Bio" on NBC, "Ghosted" on FOX, and "@Midnight" on Comedy Central. As actors they've been on "The Mindy Project," "The Good Place," "Lethal Weapon," "Workaholics," and more!