The Alumni creative business talent - providing creative business talent for corporate events. Improvisational training and seminars, the alumni players improv troupe, custom sketch writing and performing, talent casting and performing, the art of business, custom muder mysteries, in concert. It's about experience! Nancy Marino Benn has been in the event business for over twenty years. In that time she has managed and produced high profile events for many of CanadaÆs business leaders. She was the producer for the Second City in Toronto as well as the architect & executive producer of the Second City's Business Communications division. Currently Nancy is a professor of Meeting & Events at Humber College.
Quiz’n’Art is an entertainment event in two parts. The first part is a Quiz, the second part an improvised play. The input from the Quiz portion of the evening provides the suggestions that the improvisers use to create the Art part. The show includes 3 - 5 Improvisational Actors, Musical Director, Director/Stage Manager.
Between dinner and dessert, the Quiz Master explains the audience’s role in the evening program and administers the Quiz. Over dessert the tables brainstorm to come up with their best responses to the 7 question Quiz.
1) Write down a provocative question.
2) A fear one might be reluctant to share.
3) The perfect place to meet an old friend.
4) The world’s most exciting dinner partner.
5) A pet peeve.
6) Title of a song that has never been written.
7) Choose two or three of the most interesting items that someone at your table has at their disposal and give that object to the Quiz Master.
The index cards are collected and put in baskets on the front of the stage. Objects are put in bags. An actor chooses a Title for the Play from the suggestion baskets. Using this as a starting point, the actors, the musical director and the stage manager (lights) begin to improvise. Scenes end, new scenes start, scenes return. Songs that have never been written are sung, fears and pet peeves explored, famous people visit the most interesting places in the world, and sentences are used as random lines of dialogue.
QUIZ ‘N’ ART can be customized to include product information or other business content.