Clown Meets Improv with Jet Eveleth

“Clown meets Improv” is a workshop for students of the art who feel stuck in their heads. Created for performers who are looking to be more honest and active in their work. This workshop explores clown’s relationship to improvisation with a focus on being present, finding emotional depth and presence. Open to all levels because the techniques will be new to everyone. It offers a totally different approach to long-form work that invites you to dream and to let go of the inner judge.

Bio:

Jet is an artist and clown. She runs an open workshop called Clown Church that offers local artists an opportunity to reimagine comedy. She directs The Highland Park Clowns, an ensemble that explores new angles on postmodern clowning. She created and performed a role in the cirque show Absinthe, called the greatest show in Vegas history by Las Vegas Weekly.

She is a founding member of The Reckoning at the iO Theater and performs in the show Adsit & Eveleth with Scott Adsit. She toured Europe performing with The Second City and has studied with Paola Coletto and Philippe Gaulier. She was faculty at The Second City Conservatory and is the former artistic director of the Chicago Improv Festival. She taught physical theater and clown at Columbia College and is currently faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University. She has received a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts, a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Doctorate in Integrative Medicine.

Workshop REVIEWS

“One of the best  teachers on this planet! They encourages you to be bold and wild, to go beyond your fears, to dive into the unknown, and to embrace and love the experience, and to be present, to really be in the moment. Not only when improvising but in life.” -Heike Reissig

“I felt like I’d moved on a year in just that one week. Mind blowing and weird and freaky and raw and fabulous. They”ll leave you gagging for more!” – Kit Murdock

“All theater workshops promise the same thing — to teach the art of being physically and emotionally present. This one delivers.” -Leslie Carson

“Jet shows you how to make the the stage a place where you can most be you.” -Stephanie Hunger

“Jet is a comedic powerhouse. I can honestly say that I’ve never taken any course that has better shown me what I’m capable of as a comedian and artist.”  -Jess Grant

“Jet’s class made me want to cry. Best workshop I’ve taken in 3 years.”

 –Nate Morse

“In less than two hours Jet blew apart and reconstructed our duo form into something better and more organic than ever imagined. I could not have asked for a more invigorating and inspiring teacher.  Get in a room with Jet and she’ll remind you why you became an improviser in the first place.” -Allison Ungar

“Jet takes you on a roller coaster of ego breaking improv exercises, that will provide you with an arsenal of tools to further scene and develop arc. Be ready to feel like you have brand new legs and leave feeling victorious.”

–Sarah McPeck