Paul Sills One Week Summer Improvisational Intensive in Door County, Wisconsin

This intensive week of theater games is a concentrated course in playing Viola Spolin's exercises for actors, theater students and other players. Workshops meet in studios at the Sills farm on the peninsula in Lake Michigan north of Green Bay (Door County, Wisconsin).

Paul Sills at his Door County farm with graduates David Paterson, Heather Nolan, Kathy Hendrickson and Stephen Kosmicki

This intensive week of theater games is a concentrated course in playing Viola Spolin's exercises for actors, theater students and other players. Workshops meet in studios at the Sills farm on the peninsula in Lake Michigan north of Green Bay (Door County, Wisconsin). The Workshops are taught by highly experienced students of the late Paul Sills under the supervision of his widow, Carol Sills.

July 27 - August 2, 2008
Story Theater with Carol and Neva Sills

Story Theater allows a group to transform stories or literature into onstage contemporary performance. The approach emphasizes communication, both verbal and nonverbal, through the Spolin theater games Sills employs when he introduces, casts and directs his choice of material. The intensive will include the group adaptation of a story during a rehearsal process that leads to performance. This experience, while spontaneously involving all members of group, can transfer to many other curriculum areas, bringing delight and satisfaction back into learning. Carol and Neva Sills will coach. Tuition is $500.

August 3 - August 9, 2008
Teachers Workshop... with Bob Moyer and Max Schafer

Players in this workshop especially intended for teachers are offered an immersion in ideas, strategies and resources through a comprehensive sampling of Viola Spolin's theater games. Bob and Max are seasoned by a lifetime of training with both Spolin and Sills. Bob Moyer was for many years, story theater and improvisational theater High School Drama Program Director at North Carolina High School of the Arts. Max Schafer, currently teaching in a California distinguished charter school, is author of Spolin’s software version of Theater Games for the Classroom, Northwestern University Press. Tuition is $600;  $550 for alumni.

Schedule: Players always arrive on a Sunday before the first workshop. Workshops are held twice a day, Monday through Friday, from 10am - 1pm, and 4 - 6pm. Each intensive ends with a small celebration following the final Friday workshop.

For information call or write:
Carol Sills, 2397 Lime Kiln Rd., Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 Tel. 920-854-5072

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