Guest instructor, Jeanette Knight will be teaching a four week Improv Class during the month of January. Her classes will focus on both long form and short form improvisational acting techniques, including skills useful in performing scripted material.  Students will have an opportunity to show off their skills on Saturday, January 28 at 4pm as part of a “Theatre Games Night.”

Class meets Wednesday evenings from 6:30-9:00 pm – January 4, 11, 18 & 25

$120 for all four classes.

Call the Box Office for more information. 760-296-2966

Click here to register online.

Jeanette Knight is a member of SAG/AFTRA and Actors Equity Association, Knight’s extensive experience includes playing a gamut of roles at the Beaumont Actors Studio, The California Desert Regional Theatre, The Palm Canyon Theatre, Indio Performing Arts Center, Tony-award winning Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, and the Idyllwild Arts Academy, where she has been teaching acting and improv for the past nine years. She has directed and/or produced numerous productions, including “The Little Dog Laughed,” starring Greg Louganis and Dawnn Lewis and “Trying,” both for the Indian Wells Theatre.  Last September she directed CVRep’s Youth Outreach Production, the anti-bullying play,  “Push.”

She was the Education Program Manager for the McCallum Theatre from 1998-2006, becoming a master teaching artist of Aesthetic Education and working closely with the Lincoln Center Institute. She is the director of the “Joshua Tree Improv/Comedy Festival” which will take place at the Hi Desert Cultural Center this July 7, 8 & 9, 2017.