ZipLine Improv - Three Women, One Night, No Script

Joining Laura Wachtel of ZipLine Improv for this show are two very funny and skilled audience favorites, Tracy Burns and Susie Sargent. What will the show be like? We can’t tell you because we don’t know. But it will be entirely improvised and we might have trouble keeping a straight face.

Three women, one night, no script. 

This event is being held in our amphitheater. Bring your own low-backed chair or seat cushion. OCA members and people with limited mobility may email us to reserve front-row, ground level seating (chairs).

Tickets are $20 advance, $25 at the door. Discount for OCA members.

Tracy Burns has been teaching and performing internationally for over 30 years. She teaches acting, performance analysis, and improv at Pixar, DreamWorks, The Sims, Laika, Electronic Arts, and other animation and gaming studios. She is the Acting for Animators instructor at California College of the Arts. She was named one of the top improv instructors in Los Angeles by Backstage magazine. Tracy was a founding member and co-artistic director of London Theatresports and was the artistic director of Los Angeles Theatresports. She was a core member and instructor for the award-winning improv group Impro Theatre in L.A. She has also taught and performed with many other groups such as Second City, ACME (L.A.), BATS (S.F.), The Comedy Store Players (London), Unexpected Productions (Seattle), The Brody (Portland), Drama Light (Germany), Op Sterk Water (Holland) and Vancouver TheatreSports (Canada).

Susie Sargent discovered and fell in love with improv over twenty-five years ago and enjoys sharing her passion through training, teaching, and performing. For seven years she was an ensemble member of Un-Scripted Theater Companywhere she performed full-length improvised plays and musicals as well as Swipe Right, a show about online dating (in which she once played a Krispy Kreme worker and was given an audience member’s donuts). She performs in improv festivals across the nation as half of the duo Wine & Weasels and was featured in two seasons of How We First Met, including shows on Crystal Cruises. She is a guest player with BATS Improv (SF) and Regular Exclusive Blend (Sacramento) and is a frequent ZipLine Improv guest.

Laura Wachtel, founder and lead coach of ZipLine Improv, began her improv journey 20 years ago as a deeply introverted and self-conscious person. As an instructor, her aim is to create a space where others’ lives can be changed for the better through improv, as hers was. As a performer she enjoys building stories and characters with real feelings and stakes, whether comically or dramatically, and committing to acting the moment. In addition to training as an improviser, she studied acting with A.C.T., Andrew Wood, and Jenna Welch in San Francisco. In addition to producing shows, Laura teaches numerous improv classes weekly in Sonoma County, brings improv training to both small and corporate workplaces, and is also a company member at BATS Improv, where there are shows every week.

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