Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center

(1766) Special Saturday 3-6pm Matt Besser

Special: Special Class

Prerequisites
Must have previous UCBT class experience. See course description below for details.
Scheduled
Saturday 3-6pm
Start Date
Sat July 31, 2004, 3:00pm EDT
Price
$50.00
Finding the Game

w/ Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade

Matt Besser will help you find and play the game of the scene.

Limit 18 people.

There is no prerequisite, however this is a class for intermediate and advanced players. This is not recommended to improvisors who are new to longform improv.

Matt Besser, Teacher

Raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Matt Besser attended Amherst College

in MA. After graduating in 1989, Matt toured the Midwest as a

professional stand-up comedian, while taking improvisation classes with Del Close at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic Theater.

In 1991, he became a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and has performed and written productions including Virtual Reality, UCBTV, Thunderball, Bucket of Truth, Big Dirty Hands, Punch Your Friend in the Face and Saigon Suicide Squad. Besser also conceived and directed numerous UCB shows. Additionally, Besser directed the comedy duo Jonathan Groff and Todd Barry in Sidecarrin’, which was included in the 1998 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Matt later directed Todd Barry in Icky which went

to the 2001 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Matt’s one-man show May I Help

You... Dumbass? ran at the UCB Theatre and was presented at the Chicago

Improv Festival. Matt’s

one-man show Woo Pig Sooie! recently completed tours of the South and Northwest. His most controversial project

Crossballs: The Debate Show aired on Comedy Central.

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    UCBT OFFICES Room 1
     
  • UCBT OFFICES Room 1
    163 W23rd St. 5th Floor (btwn 6th & 7th)

     
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