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Armando Diaz. navigation search. Armando is an owner, founder, and teacher at the Magnet Theater in New York City. Armando is widely regarded as one of the best improv teachers in New York City and beyond. His list of teaching credits is a long one: the iO Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Peoples ...
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Armando is an owner, founder, and teacher at the Magnet Theater in New York City.
Armando is widely regarded as one of the best improv teachers in New York City and beyond. His list of teaching credits is a long one: the iO Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Peoples Improv Theatre, and Michael Howard Studios. He has trained dozens of actors who have performed or written for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mad TV, and The Daily Show.
Born in Harvey, IL, 30 miles south of Chicago, in 1966. In High School, he became friends with Late Night writer Kevin Dorff. Armando studied improv under Del Close at the ImprovOlympic, Mick Napier at the Annoyance Theatre, and graduated from the Second City Conservatory. He performed in and helped create one of the most popular improvised longforms in Chicago, "The Armando Diaz Experience...." For the last decade, "The Armando" has been performed weekly in Chicago, and is now taught and performed in many other cities including Los Angeles and New York.
In addition to writing and producing short films, Armando wrote sketches for the show Upright Citizens Brigade on Comedy Central, and has performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
•Improvised New York - The Real Armando Diaz
•IRC Podcast 2010-11-09 Armando Diaz
WORKSHOPS. Armando Diaz is widely regarded as one of the best improv teachers in New York City and beyond. His list of teaching credits is a long one: the ImprovOlympic Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The Peoples Improv Theater, and Michael Howard Studios.
Armando. This improv game is in the following improv game categories: Long Form. Performance. Description. This is a long form, named after its creator, Chicago Improv teacher and player Armando Diaz. This improv format starts with a storytelling-style monologue, based on an audience suggestion.
After establishing himself as an important voice in the Chicago improv community in the 1990s under the mentorship of the legendary Del Close, Armando Diaz gathered forces with other Chicago improvisers such as Ed Herbstman to create Magnet Theater in 2005. Magnet continues to be guided by Diaz and co-owner Sean Taylor. What We Do (our mission)
The Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement and Hootenanny. A long-running Monday night improv show that was created back in 1995 at ImprovOlympic Chicago and continues today at IO -Chicago, at the newer IO WEST in Los Angeles and occasionally at the Magnet Theater in NYC.
The legendary show is reborn! Created in 1995 at the iO Theater in Chicago, The Armando Diaz Experience IS the longest running improv show EVER. A guest monologist takes a suggestion from the audience and shares true stories from their life. These stories are then brought to life by a rotating cast of improv all-stars, which take audiences on a ...
