Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(5262) Improv 201 Saturdays noon-3pm Brian Finkelstein
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Saturdays noon-3pm
- Start Date
- Sat September 11, 2010, 12:00pm 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 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
Brian Finkelstein, Teacher
Brian Finkelstein is a comedic writer / performer. He’s a regular at the Moth as well as The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. His last one-person show, First Day Off In A Long Time, was selected for the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and chosen “Best In Comedy″ by Time Out New York. The show was later developed as a sitcom for FOX.
Brian’s appeared in a variety of independent films, NPR’s "Leonard Lopate Show," NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, TBS’s Cut To The Chase, and Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade. Most recently he was an Emmy nominated writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Brian’s appeared in a variety of independent films, NPR’s "Leonard Lopate Show," NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, TBS’s Cut To The Chase, and Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade. Most recently he was an Emmy nominated writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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