Matt Fotis

Gebundenes Buch

Fifty Key Improv Performers

Actors, Troupes, and Schools from Theatre, Film, and TV

Beschreibung

Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary performance both onstage and onscreen.

Autor

Matt Fotis is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Albright College, where he teaches improvisation, comedy studies, and writing for performance. He is the author of Satire & The State: Sketch Comedy and the Presidency (2020), Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold (2014), and cöauthor of The Comedy Improv Handbook (2016). He has published or presented on various topics, including improvisational theatre, new play development, political theatre, solöperformance, comedy studies, folklore studies, popular culture and more. His work has appeared in Theatre Journal , Theatre Topics, Theatre/Practice, The Journal of American Drama & Theatre , Academic Minute, The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, The Encyclopedia of American Studies, McSweeney's, and MLB.com, among others. He is an award-winning playwright and the cöfounder and cöexecutive director of The First Thursday Comedy Series in Reading, PA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781032414225
• ISBN-10: 1032414227
• Artikelnr.: 70201256