I am a professional actor as well as a director and playwright, trained at Yale College as well as with several acting studios and theatre companies across the US.  My acting career started in Washington, DC with a theatre company called "Living Stage," the community outreach branch of Arena Stage.  While there I learned improvisational structures and a method of acting that was open to all and celebrated the power of the imagination, and learned to combine scripted scenes with improvised endings based on audience suggestions.  I consider myself very lucky to have spent so many decades since then using those skills and gaining new skills with fellow artists (and I consider my students to be among my fellow artists) on stages of all sorts and sizes.  I look forward to collaborating with your learner in this class.