Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(1770) Special Sunday 1-4pm Matt Besser
Special: Special Class
- Prerequisites
- Must have previous UCBT class experience. See course description below for details.
- Scheduled
- Sunday 1-4pm
- Start Date
- Sun August 1, 2004, 1:00pm 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.
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.
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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This Course is Completed.