Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(3137) Improv 101 Wednesdays 7-10pm Ari Voukydis
Improv 101: Improv Basics
- Scheduled
- Wednesdays 7-10pm
- Start Date
- Wed February 6, 2008, 7:00pm EST
- Price
- $325.00
Students will learn the fundamentals of long-form improvisation. Core concepts covered include using character agreement to make your scenes succeed, developing character, character status, object and environment work, “playing at the top of your intelligence,†and heightening (finding ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish).
This course also introduces the specific vocabulary of the UCB Training Center.
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 Improv 101 - Improv Basics
A great introduction to long form improvisation: learn to create great scenes through agreement, support, playing to the top of your intelligence, object and environment work, and strong clear character choices.
Maximum class size is 16.
This course also introduces the specific vocabulary of the UCB Training Center.
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 Improv 101 - Improv Basics
A great introduction to long form improvisation: learn to create great scenes through agreement, support, playing to the top of your intelligence, object and environment work, and strong clear character choices.
Maximum class size is 16.
Ari Voukydis, Teacher
Ari Voukydis has been performing improv, standup and sketch comedy in New York City since back when there were hookers in Times Square. He has been a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 1997 and has been teaching improv and sketch comedy there for ten years.
He is a founding member of the house team Standard Oil, half of the comedy duo “Mark and Ari†and has produced, created and performed in countless shows including “Wicked F***in’ Queeyah,†an annual salute to his home town of Boston, MA.
Ari is a regular on all those VH-1 shows your niece watches, like The Best Week Ever and All Access, and has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Comedy Central’s The Upright Citizens Brigade.
He has written for GQ, Entertainment Weekly, SPY, Esquire, and many other magazines. Mark & Ari’s short, “Small World,†was directed by John Landis and featured on The Tonight Show.
He is a founding member of the house team Standard Oil, half of the comedy duo “Mark and Ari†and has produced, created and performed in countless shows including “Wicked F***in’ Queeyah,†an annual salute to his home town of Boston, MA.
Ari is a regular on all those VH-1 shows your niece watches, like The Best Week Ever and All Access, and has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Comedy Central’s The Upright Citizens Brigade.
He has written for GQ, Entertainment Weekly, SPY, Esquire, and many other magazines. Mark & Ari’s short, “Small World,†was directed by John Landis and featured on The Tonight Show.
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