Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4581) Improv 101 Sundays 3-6pm Alex Fernie
Improv 101: Improv Basics
- Scheduled
- Sundays 3-6pm
- Start Date
- Sun December 13, 2009, 3:00pm PST
- Price
- $350.00
Students will learn the fundamentals of long-form improvisation. Core concepts covered include using character agreement to make your scenes succeed, developing character, character status, object and environment work, “playing at the top of your intelligence,†and heightening (finding ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish).
This course also introduces the specific vocabulary of the UCB Training Center.
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 NO CLASS DECEMBER 27
Class meets at Art/Works in Hollywood
This course also introduces the specific vocabulary of the UCB Training Center.
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 NO CLASS DECEMBER 27
Class meets at Art/Works in Hollywood
Alex Fernie, Teacher
Alex Fernie has been performing and taking classes at UCBTLA since 2006. He's studied with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade plus Seth Morris and Chad Carter, among others. He started improvising in high school in Providence, RI. He continued to perform regularly while attending Vassar College until moving to Los Angeles in 2004.
He currently is a member of the UCB Harold team Sentimental Lady and Convoy, which won a record breaking 44 straight weeks in UCB Cagematch. He has appeared in and/or written for many shows at the theater, including Smug Rock Nation, Comedy Death-Ray, Thirty:30, Crash Test, CDR Sketch, Quick and Dirty Musicals, and Show and Tell. He co-created and starred in an improvised pilot for Comedy Central, along with appearing on Reno 911!, Jimmy Kimmel Live and in national commercials.
He currently is a member of the UCB Harold team Sentimental Lady and Convoy, which won a record breaking 44 straight weeks in UCB Cagematch. He has appeared in and/or written for many shows at the theater, including Smug Rock Nation, Comedy Death-Ray, Thirty:30, Crash Test, CDR Sketch, Quick and Dirty Musicals, and Show and Tell. He co-created and starred in an improvised pilot for Comedy Central, along with appearing on Reno 911!, Jimmy Kimmel Live and in national commercials.
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