Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4677) Improv 201 Mon-Fri 11am-2pm Alex Fernie
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Mon-Fri 11am-2pm
- Start Date
- Mon February 1, 2010, 11:00am PST
- 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 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 at MetaTheatre in West 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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