Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(5149) Improv 201 Mon-Fri 11am-2pm David Harris
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Mon-Fri 11am-2pm
- Start Date
- Mon August 2, 2010, 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
David Harris, Teacher
Since 2005 David Harris has been studying and improvising at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. He has studied with UCB founders, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh and continues to perform with the Harold team turned weekly show, Last Day of School.
David has also performed in Freak Dance: the Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo, Sketch Cram, Dirtiest Sketch in LA Contest and Drug Cagematch, and has written and/or performed music for Quick and Dirty Musicals, Command Performance, and Killgore.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, David studied with Dirty South Improv and served as artistic director of the Chapel Hill Players (CHiPs) in 2004, before moving to the West Coast.
David has also performed in Freak Dance: the Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo, Sketch Cram, Dirtiest Sketch in LA Contest and Drug Cagematch, and has written and/or performed music for Quick and Dirty Musicals, Command Performance, and Killgore.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, David studied with Dirty South Improv and served as artistic director of the Chapel Hill Players (CHiPs) in 2004, before moving to the West Coast.
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