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 After teaching, directing, producing theatre at COCA (Center of Creative Arts) in St. Louis for nearly the past 7 years Reggi moves his talents to the new Black Cat Theatre located in Maplewood Missouri.SPOLIN BASED ACTING CLASSES - "Get out of your head and into the space..." - Paul Sills Ed is offering a series of Spolin-based improvisation acting 2 hour workshops starting in March. Class size is limited and is for adults only. His improvisation classes are useful for a variety of people who are looking to improve their audition, callbacks or to build on their current techniques. Reggi's former students are working professionals in St. Louis, LA, Chicago and New York City. (Classes are also helpful for other types of performers who need become spontaneous in their jobs.) This is not an improv class where Reggi coaches the students on how to be "funny" or instructs them on how to tell jokes with an interesting character voice. In Ed's class you will work on building core physical skills rooted in Viola Spolin's work. Spolin's work has been used by Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Avery Schrieber, Valerie Harper, Alan Alda, Jeremy Piven, Kathleen O'Hare, Chris Farley and many other professional actors. Improvisation acting provides an excellent method for any actor to get instant critical feed back regarding their acting authenticity. Excellent for film actors or stage actors trying to make that transition to camera work. Reggi will work for 4 hours every Monday night starting 6:00 PM at the fabulous Black Cat Theatre at 2810 Sutton Boulevard in Maplewood. Cost for this 5-week series of workshops is $125. (When I offered this class at COCA it was almost double this price so you are getting a real savings!)  Paper Slip Theatre, Inc. again ushered in the New Year in Grand Center during the 2008 St. Louis' First Night Celebration. Reggi's cast of comics took over the historic Grandel Theater, performing to over 5,000 New Year's revelers.Reggi's First Night Paper Slip improv cast included: Bill Chott, Jamie Pitt, C. David Harrison, Chris Hartman, Michele Dumoulin, Greg Cuellar, Warren Arnold, Hannah Kiem and Darrell Barber. To see more videos from the evening click here. For details on booking the highly acclaimed and award winning show check out www.papersliptheatre.com.  Once again Reggi wraps the year up at another State Thespian Festival. "It is a perfect way to start the new year," Reggi said. "I have been teaching acting workshops at the Missouri Thespians for the last 5 years." The three-day Missouri State Thespian Conference is scheduled at the UMSL Touhill Theatre during the first week in 2008. Last years' highlight was Reggi receiving a standing ovation with cheers when they introduced all guest artists.
 Springboard to Learning & Young Audiences of Saint Louis has named Ed Reggi "Teaching Artist of the Year!" A Saint Louis transplant, Ed Reggi, is an actor who instructs Spolin's Theater games, acting and improvisation to thousands of children in many school districts in the greater St. Louis area. Reggi uses his foundation of improvisation to teach language skills and awareness while having meaningful fun in the classroom. He has been a teaching specialist for Young Audiences for eight years and is one of the most requested teachers on their roster. His Paper Slip Theatre can be booked through Springboard to Learning / Young Audiences of St. Louis, where he also offers workshops, performances and residency programs. Reggi is an actor and "actors-coach" trained by Viola Spolin's son Paul Sills. Reggi is hailed as one of the top acting instructors in the United States. He is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association (AEA) and is an Emmy Award winning actor. He also serves as an Artistic Associate of the Chicago Improv Festival.
 Ed Reggi takes Broadway by storm this year! After recently leaving his 7-year tenure as the Director of Theatre and Voice at COCA in St. Louis, Reggi is finally ready to Produce Commercial Theater.Last Spring Reggi attended the Commercial Theatre Institute where he spent time in the Big Apple learning from some of the biggest Broadway Producers living. As a new Producer, Reggi's short list includes a theatrical project which centers around West-African International dancer Diadie Bathily and his work with Choreography virtuso Katherine Dunham; another is a Rock musical based on a critically acclaimed BBC documentary that puts mental illness under the microscope. Ed is completely committed to bringing new theatrical works to Broadway that speak to a new younger audience. (Photo taken several months ago when the St. Louis Jewish Light featured an article on Ed Reggi click his picture to read the article.) Photo by Lisa Mandel  The St. Louis Magazine featured a six-page article on Ed Reggi and his amazing work in theatre. It also documented Reggi's improvisation crusade. The writer Thomas Crone highlighted Reggi's local performing, directing, teaching history and his new committment in the St. Louis Arts scene as the Director of Theatre and Voice Department at COCA, Center of Creative Arts.The magazine hailed Reggi as St. Louis' very own "Improv Genius" and one of the City's top recognizable artists. Click here to download the PDF version.  Get Adobe Acrobat Reader [Paul Sills, Stephanie Riven, Carol Sills, Ed Reggi] Ed Reggi invited his former teacher and personal friend Paul Sills (founder of the Historic, The Second City, and the co-founder of The New Actor's Workshop in NYC) to The Imagine Weekend. The event celebrated COCA's (Center of Creative Arts) involvement with the community for nearly 20 years, 7 of which Ed Reggi helped shape the institution's Theater Education Department and program as its Director of Theater and Voice. |
YES AND is the act of total agreement in an improvised play. For example: when two people play the game CHECKERS, the players agree to play CHECKERS with its understood rules. In the middle of the game neither player can change to playing GO FISH. This is true with Improvisation; the players must agree to everything revealed, always advancing forward.
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