Jenny Elfving and Piotr Mirowski


Piotr Mirowski is an improviser and theatre actor who trained in Toulouse (C cédille  and Ligue
d’Improvisation Universitaire, 1999-2002), New York (QUICKTHINKING! Improv, 2003-2006 and
Gotham City Improv, 2011-2013) and now London. Piotr studied for a Diploma in Acting at LSDA –
London School of Dramatic Art (2015-2017) and as an improviser with The Nursery (musical, drop-in),
Hoopla (long-form, Harold, narrative long-form, Improvisers’s Way), The Showstoppers (6 week-long
or week-end intensives), teachers from UCB Comedy, City Academy and Imprology. Piotr performed
in several hundreds of improv shows, and was a member of New York-based improv volunteering
charity Cherub Improv (2007-2013), performing in hospitals or nursing homes, London-based short
form group Improvable (2013-2016), and artificial intelligence-based improv HumanMachine (2016-).
Stage credits include The Hotel (Cambridge Theatreworks, 2003), The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Moose Hall Inwood Shakespeare Festival, New York, 2006), Playing with Grown-Ups (LSDA, London
Fringe, 2017) and Medea (The Wretched Strangers, Brighton Fringe, 2018).

Jenny Elfving is a Swedish actor, improviser and playwright, who trained at Boulevardteatern,
Stockholms Improvisationsteater, and Västerbergs Folkhögskola. Since 2011 she has taught
numerous improv classes at Stockholms Improvisationsteater, International Theater Stockholm, and
Improvisation & Co. As a member of the independent improv group Dramatiska who focused on
dramatic genre based longform, she has co-produced and performed in Improvised Tennessee
Williams, Improvised Ingmar Bergman, Improvised Woody Allen, Improvised Hitchcock, and the
smash hit that played for a full house for 5 seasons: Improvised Roy Andersson. With Dramatiska, she
performed at the New York City Improv Festival 2013, SWIMP 2017 and Best of Stockholm 2017. She
is also the founder and producer of the improv group Hybris, which performs frequently in Stockholm
and is known for their modern Impro-Flow concept. Jenny has also played 7 seasons in the improvised
children’s show Sagogrottan, co-founded the experimental group Achtung Impro in 2017. She is
currently directing her own play Invulnerable at Teaterstudio Lederman.

All Sessions by Jenny Elfving and Piotr Mirowski

  • Friday

    February 1, 2019

  • 14:00  - 17:00
    The actor's nightmare is a two-person improv game where one improviser has to read from a written script while the other justifies all the lines. Strong physicality, emotion-filled acting and quick wit are required to make the incongruous scenes work.  We created a futuristic version of that game and made it into a full tech-infused show, called Improbotics, currently adopted by three teams in London, Stockholm and Edmonton, Canada. In Improbotics, and instead of scripted lines written in advanced, we have an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that prompts the actors via headphones. The lines do not always make sense, but need to be delivered with confidence by the performer. The humor comes from how seamless the scene looks like. This workshop will take you out of your improv robot head (as an actual robot will literally tell you what to say next) and will make you work on your sincerity, your voice and stage presence, on your listening, and will remind how important it is to accept and heighten, physically and emotionally, the offers that are made on the stage.
    Cost: € 40
    filter away sold-out
    workshop
    afternoon
    advanced (3-8 years)
    Where
    Compagnietheater



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