Theater Workshops with Allison Vincent

April 13 & 20 - Devising | 6:30-9:30pm  

April 14 & 21 - clowning | 6:30-9:30pm 

$25 per class
These are stand-alone classes offered on multiple dates on the Jungle stage—take one or join for both.

Devising Workshop (Mondays April 13 & 20 | 6:30-9:30pm at the Jungle Theater)
In this play-based workshop, participants will get hands-on experience creating theater on their feet through devising. Using games, small group exercises, prompts, scripted text, and the collective imagination in the room, we’ll generate brand-new work together. This class is a chance to stretch your skills as a collaborator and improviser, and to begin thinking beyond yourself as the sole performer of a story.

Clowning and Play for the Actor (Tuesdays April 14 & 21 | 6:30-9:30pm at the Jungle Theater)
Free your natural silliness and hit the mute button on your inner critic. This joyful, fast-paced workshop helps participants unlock their innate playfulness, deepen their listening, and become more inventive, responsive performers. Come ready to take risks, be surprised, and reconnect with the pleasure of play.

Even as we pause productions, the Jungle remains committed to showing up for the artists who make our work possible. Offering classes with cohort member Allison Vincent is one way we can stay in practice together—creating space for performers to keep working, build skills, and stay connected to one another.

These classes are rooted in the same values that guide our work onstage: rigor, curiosity, and collaboration. By opening our doors in this way, we hope to nurture the ecosystem of artists in the Twin Cities and keep the practice of making theater alive and evolving, even in this moment of pause.

Allison Vincent is an award-winning performer, director, writer, deviser, and educator known for creating new works, physical theatre, and gender-bending performances.  She has been honored to collaborate with companies and theaters across the Twin Cities, including History Theater, ARTISTRY, Theater Forever, The Four Humors, Dark and Stormy, Mainly Me, The Illusion, The Guthrie, Frank Theatre, The Jungle, Sod House, Strike Theatre, Theatre Novi Most, Transatlantic Love Affair, Winding Sheet Outfit, Park Square, Playwright’s Center, the University of Minnesota, and Walking Shadow.  In addition to performing, Allison is a co-artistic director and founding member of Transatlantic Love Affair, a company member of Four Humors, a former teaching artist at the Guthrie Theater and Loft Literary Center, and has collaborated as a writer on over twenty produced scripts.  In 2022 Allison wrote and performed a solo storytelling show about caretaking for her father succumbing to dementia as a Pillsbury House + Theatre’s Naked Stages Fellow and a 2025 Jungle Artistic Cohort Member.  Recently she’s had her scripts published in The Empty Room, Rejection Letters, Dirty Girls Come Clean, and Roi Fainéant Press. She teaches at the University of Minnesota in the Writing Studies Department’s First Year Writing Program and the Theatre Arts and Dance Department. She’s the recipient of an 2023 Everwood Artist Residency and the 2023 Loft/Madeline Island School for the Arts Teaching Excellence Residency.

 Questions?

Email Christina Baldwin at cbaldwin@jungletheater.org