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IMPROV
Karen
Ripley has been teaching improvisation to children and adults for over
25 years. Karen has been the in house Improv teacher for Harvey Milk
Institute, SF, Ca for the past 9 years.
Some of her clients include:
- Thunder Road in Oakland, a
teen drug and alcohol facility.
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
of Alameda County.
- Girls Inc., San Leandro, at
risk teen girls
- The Healing Arts Institute
in Columbus, Ohio.
- San Francisco State University
- Theater Rhinoceros, SF
- The Shanti Foundation, SF
- Santa Cruz County Child Care
Dept. Aptos, Ca
- New College, San Francisco.
Ca
Karen has been a part of several improv troupes. The most well known, "Over Our Heads", performed once a month for 13 years at Mama Bears Bookstore in Berkeley, Ca.
Currently Karen performs improv with "Women Who Crave Attention", featuring Annie Larson, Amy Boyd, Karla Carmony and Jenny McNulty.
CURRENT THEATER PROJECTS:
Waiting for FEMA by Karen Ripley & Annie Larson
Catch a glimpse into your future ... will it be an earthquake or tsunami
that
forces you to scream "HELP! FEMA!" Molly and Edna face chaos in this
comic/musical Red Alert. By comic writer-performers Karen Ripley and
Annie Larson,
with live musical back-up by Jack "Applejack" Walroth.
Ripley and Larson
have
toured nationally and have been performing together for over 20 years.
Their last
play, Show Me Where It Hurts, won “Best of Fringe” at the 2005 San
Francisco
Fringe Festival.
Waiting for FEMA is currently under going a face lift. Stay tuned...
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