SIGN UP NOW FOR AN EXCITING IMPROV CLASS AT KUMU KAHUA THEATRE

Have you ever had the urge to try your hand at acting? Or maybe you thought you could be on Saturday Night Live? Well, do we have a class for you! Kumu Kahua will be offering an improvisation class for adults.

Classes will be held at the Kumu Kahua Theatre and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, or to reserve a place in a class, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre Business Office at 536-4222.

BEGINNING IMPROVISATION: Fundamentals of improvisation, developing creativity, spontaneity, and working as an ensemble. Movement and dialogue based exercises. Lots of fun that will help free your creativity. No previous experience or preparation necessary.

Instructor: GARRICK PAIKAI teaches acting at Leeward Community College. Both his play, Who Killed Gilbert Bothello? and the long form local improv, Da Pa‘ina, were performed as part of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Night series. Garrick has appeared on OC 16’s Mental Talipia (an improv show) and See Steph Run (a sketch comedy show).  He is the founder of the improvisational theatre group, On the Spot. He is also a member of Loose Screws. He holds an MFA in Directing from UHM Theatre department. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturdays, January 14-February18, 2006, 9am to Noon. $75.

Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i (with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; The Hawai‘i Community Foundation; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.