Improv w/ Jeris Donovan

The official pilot season is near! Improv for the Actor will prepare students for single cam and multi-cam comedy auditions by using both long form improvisation and script work.

Tuesday January 31st

6 - 7pm EST

Ages 7-12

Open To The Public

Virtual Only

$55 / person

Learn more about Jeris:

Jeris Donovan is an actress and comedian who has performed and directed improv for over twenty-five years. She studied improv at the renowned Second City in Chicago, Improv Olympic-Chicago, and Annoyance Theater, and has taught all levels of improvisation at the Improv Olympic West conservatory in Los Angeles, where she created and directed groundbreaking troupes including Bitch Planet with Lindsey Stoddart (American Housewife), Wendy Molyneaux (Bob’s Burgers, The Great North), Angela Kinsey (The Office), Kate Flannery (The Office), and BIG with Dana Powell (Modern Family), Backyard Kilbasa with Chris Tallman (The Thundermans), Arden Myrin (Insatiable), David Ury (Lodge 49, Breaking Bad). Previous students are comedians, actors, and writers seen in many national commercials and on shows such as The Office, Bob’s Burgers, SNL, Modern Family, Euphoria, American Housewife, The Middle, Breaking Bad, Insatiable, Mr. Mercedes, Gifted, School of Rock, and many, many more. Jeris is a Meisner trained actor, and has worked on such television shows as Spin City, Two Guys and a Girl, and for networks such as ABC, CBS, and more recently, Words on Bathroom Walls, The Walking Dead: The World Beyond and Dopesick.

Since 2014, Jeris taught and coached at Moonlight Stage Company where she built the only youth improv training and performance program of its kind in the country. Her troupes have been selected to perform at festivals throughout the southeast, always earning the privilege of being the youngest troupes selected in each festival's history.

Her clients have booked roles for TV: Stranger Things, DC’s Stargirl, This Country, Just Beyond, Dopesick, Hightown, Mare of Easttown, Queen Sugar, The Gifted, The Resident, Stephen King’s Creep Show, Misfits and Monsters, NCIS: New Orleans, Swamp Thing, Good Behavior, Mr. Mercedes, TURN, Halt and Catch Fire, The Guest Book, Adult Swim. FILM: Spiderman: No Way Home, Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, Black Phone, Troupe Zero, Feel the Beat, Words on Bathroom Walls, Forever Your Girl, What Men Want. Many clients have had callbacks and tested episodic series, movies, sitcoms, and sketch series for Nickelodeon and Disney XD, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon, HBO and Netflix.