Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4241) Improv 201 Mon-Fri 11am-2pm Amanda Sitko
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Mon-Fri 11am-2pm
- Start Date
- Mon July 13, 2009, 11:00am PDT
- Price
- $350.00
The UCB Theatre Training Center bases their curriculum around the idea that all quality individual comedic scenes focus in on one central comedic idea – this idea is referred to as “The Game†of the scene.
This course will focus on teaching students how to use the idea of “The Game†to create their improvised scenes. Students will be taught how to identify “games†within their scenes, and how to use the concept of heightening to properly play out their scenes once they have them. (Heightening is finding new ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish.) The class will heavily focus on learning how to use patterns to fill out comedic scenes based around one central “game.â€
Students will also be introduced to the idea of “second beats,†or returning to scenes, characters, and concepts from earlier in an improvised piece.
This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long. At the end of the course, students will take part in a class performance, generally held at the UCB Theatre. Graduation is also contingent upon students seeing at least two improvised shows at the UCB Theater before the end of the course.
Class Size: 16 Students Class meets Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays from 11am-2pm. There is no class on Wednesdays.
Please note: due to the nature of the intensive class, make-ups are much harder to schedule.
Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood
This course will focus on teaching students how to use the idea of “The Game†to create their improvised scenes. Students will be taught how to identify “games†within their scenes, and how to use the concept of heightening to properly play out their scenes once they have them. (Heightening is finding new ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish.) The class will heavily focus on learning how to use patterns to fill out comedic scenes based around one central “game.â€
Students will also be introduced to the idea of “second beats,†or returning to scenes, characters, and concepts from earlier in an improvised piece.
This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long. At the end of the course, students will take part in a class performance, generally held at the UCB Theatre. Graduation is also contingent upon students seeing at least two improvised shows at the UCB Theater before the end of the course.
Class Size: 16 Students Class meets Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays from 11am-2pm. There is no class on Wednesdays.
Please note: due to the nature of the intensive class, make-ups are much harder to schedule.
Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood
Amanda Sitko, Teacher
Amanda Sitko is an actor/writer/improviser who started performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2006. She is a proud cast member of Coming Clean and can be seen in ASSSSCAT. Amanda has studied under Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and more. She is a member of the UCB Touring Company and currently teaches for the UCB Training Center.
Amanda has been seen in various shows at the UCB, including America's Best Comic, Sketch Cram, Dadquest, Soundtrack, and F'ed Up & Illegal Videos. Amanda’s Harold Teams have included: Cabbages & Kings, Perfect Crime, Panama, and Elroy. Amanda was also on the Maude teams Perfect Mess and Paddington. You can see her every Friday night, hosting Let’s Do This with Jennie Pierson. Amanda and Jennie co-wrote and performed in the 2 woman sketch show Amanda and Jennie: Best Friends, which went to the SF Sketchfest in 2008. Amanda has written for the 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards, Nickelodeon's Mighty B! and MTV's Popzilla.
Amanda has been seen in various shows at the UCB, including America's Best Comic, Sketch Cram, Dadquest, Soundtrack, and F'ed Up & Illegal Videos. Amanda’s Harold Teams have included: Cabbages & Kings, Perfect Crime, Panama, and Elroy. Amanda was also on the Maude teams Perfect Mess and Paddington. You can see her every Friday night, hosting Let’s Do This with Jennie Pierson. Amanda and Jennie co-wrote and performed in the 2 woman sketch show Amanda and Jennie: Best Friends, which went to the SF Sketchfest in 2008. Amanda has written for the 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards, Nickelodeon's Mighty B! and MTV's Popzilla.
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