The Magnet Theater is an improvisational comedy theatre and improv school in New York City.
The Magnet Theater was founded in March 2005 by Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman and Shannon Manning. Diaz, Manning and Herbstman were friends from Chicago, where they studied under improv guru Del Close at Improv Olympic. Diaz also co-founded the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT), where Herbstman taught. Armando Diaz and Sean Taylor currently own and operate Magnet Theater.[1][2]
The Magnet offers performance and writing classes to people of all experience levels.
The Magnet, considered to be the world epicenter of musical improvisation, is also home to the New York Musical Improv Festival founded by T.J. Mannix and Co-Produced by Robin Rothman. Celebrating its 11th annual event virtually in July 2020, NYMIF brings together hundreds of musical improvisors and musicians from Austin to Boston, Chicago to L.A., Toronto to Vancouver and beyond. Performers have included Baby Wants Candy, Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Improvised Sondheim Project, members of Freestyle Love Supreme and North Coast.
Many Magnet instructors and performers write and lend their voices to The Truth.[3]
^"Magnet Theater". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
^Steven McElroy (2006-10-27). "The Listings: Oct 27 - Nov 2; 'The Armando Diaz Experience'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
The MagnetTheater is an improvisational comedy theatre and improv school in New York City. The MagnetTheater was founded in March 2005 by Armando Diaz...
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her career as a comedian. She was the head of corporate events at The MagnetTheater in 2014. In 2016, she won the Ladies of Laughter competition, and was...
which inspired him to move to New York City. In NYC, Basil studied at MagnetTheater. For money, he worked at the Apple store, before he began getting acting...
middle and high school, while performing improv in the evenings with MagnetTheater. In 2016, Schmieding moved to Los Angeles, where she worked at an education-related...
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Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) in 2005, later teaching at New York's MagnetTheater. Sarah Pappalardo was a comedy performer and writer while attending...
District (RISD). The school has many magnet programs, such as culinary arts, theater, visual arts, tech theater, communications, robotics, law, science...
troupes or improv groups, are the primary practitioners of improvisational theater. Modern companies exist around the world and at a range of skill levels...
Randazzo met Carol Kolb of The Onion while performing improv comedy at the MagnetTheater. In 2016, He helped write Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie...
with artists from the MagnetTheater to create improvised musicals. Earlier, in 2005, NYMF and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater explored the intersection...
Improv Festival (NYMIF) is a four-day festival held every year at the MagnetTheater in New York City. Founded in 2009 by T.J. Mannix and producers Robin...
groups from New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, MagnetTheater, and The Peoples Improv Theater; and individuals including Kevin Allison of MTV's...
a 2004 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, a Theater World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, and a Drama League Award for...
theater.[citation needed] She studied drama at the John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School in Augusta, Georgia. She also attended Emory University for drama...
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