Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(5283) Improv 201 Wednesdays 7-10pm Mike Leffingwell
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Wednesdays 7-10pm
- Start Date
- Wed September 8, 2010, 7:00pm 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 The Complex in 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 The Complex in Hollywood
Mike Leffingwell, Teacher
Michael Leffingwell began studying with the UCB in 2003. At UCBTNY, he performed in the Made-Up Musical, with the sketch show Gun Love, and co-wrote and performed in the sketch show Of Mice and Tara & Michael. He also spent several years as a teacher and performer in the Touring and Main Company of Chicago City Limits.
Michael co-created and was head writer of the fake news website FNN 24/7. He has appeared on FOX's Talk Show with Spike Feresten and has written and performed several characters for The Marc Maron Show on Air America. He is currently a freelance writer for The Onion's Web Video Project and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson's monologue. At UCBTLA he can be seen on the house team Hey, Uncle Gary!
Michael co-created and was head writer of the fake news website FNN 24/7. He has appeared on FOX's Talk Show with Spike Feresten and has written and performed several characters for The Marc Maron Show on Air America. He is currently a freelance writer for The Onion's Web Video Project and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson's monologue. At UCBTLA he can be seen on the house team Hey, Uncle Gary!
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