Michael
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teaching resume

• Collaborative Arts Project 21 (2003 - 2017) - Improvisation classes for Musical Theatre Conservatory (Formerly the NYU Musical Theatre Program)

• Marymount Manhattan College (1996 - 2009) - Taught undergraduate improvisation, acting and mime/mask.

• The Second City Training Center, NYC (2001 – 2007) – Classes in beginning, advanced improvisation and performance/sketch development.

• Performance of a Lifetime (2005 - 2015) - taught communication and management workshops for HSBC customer services, PwC, US Olympics, and others.

• Koppett (2008 - 2018) - Communication and management training for companies such as Eli Lilly, AAA, Ecolab, Havas Health and Blackrock.

• Theatresports NY (1990 - 1999) - Director of Education. Designed curriculum and taught weekly classes as well as monthly drop-in and weekend intensives in narrative improvisation, character development, scene-work and physicality. Managed all classes and instructors as well as over-seeing marketing and advertising.

• Playwright's Horizons Theatre School (1994) - Taught improvisation classes for New York University Theatre students as part of the first-year acting curriculum.

• Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College (1991-92) - Taught physical improvisation and clown gag development for professional clowns.

• Mummenschanz Mask/Movement Workshops (1986-1988; in association with Mummenschanz World Tour.) - Workshops using neutral masks, character masks and mime in Cairo; Brisbane; Buenos Aires; Philadelphia; San Francisco, and others.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
B. A. in Theatre: Pennsylvania State University
Mime: Mummenschanz (LeCoq), Montanaro, et al., Luciano Brogi (Commedia)
Improvisation: TheatreSports, The Second City; Chicago City Limits, et al.
Dance: Lynn Simonson et. al. at Dance New Amsterdam (NYC)
Additional training in: Juggling, Clowning, Stage Combat, Stilts, Voice (solo & Choral ).
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