Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4179) Improv 201 Tuesdays 6-9pm Gil Ozeri
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Tuesdays 6-9pm
- Start Date
- Tue July 7, 2009, 6:00pm EDT
- 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 NO CLASS AUGUST 11.
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 NO CLASS AUGUST 11.
Gil Ozeri, Teacher
Gil Ozeri is a comedy writer from New York City as well as a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Gil recently starred as the host of the TV show Starveillance on the E! Network.
Gil can be seen performing alongside Adam Pally and Ben Schwartz in their sketch and improv group, Hot Sauce, who just came back from the 2007 Montreal Comedy Festival where their sketch show was directed by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Their performance was written up about in the Hollywood Reporter - "Also, young New York sketch trio Hot Sauce attracted some attention Thursday night, with agents and others lauding their offbeat skits…" TimeOut NY also has said that Hot Sauce "likely has a future in late night." Both their sketch shows, 4th Floor Walk-Up and Hot Sauce Sells Out, were TimeOut NY 'Critic's Pick'. Their digital short "Ysketball" also won Timeout NY's 2006 Short Film of the Year.Check them out at hotsauceacademy.com.
Gil is a member of the improv team Death by Roo Roo. His sketch and improv performances at UCBT also include his one man show Buzzy Shore's Master Class in Comedy, the Harold teams fwand and Killebrew, The Real Real World, Cagematch, host of the Dirtiest Sketch Show in NYC, Sketch Cram, as well as many other shows.
He has studied improvisation under Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Armando Diaz, Billy Merritt, Michael Delaney, Anthony King, TJ Jagadowski, Dave Pasquesi and others since 2002. He has a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Studio Art from Binghamton University. He's also appeared on Saturday Night Live and Late Night w/Conan O'Brien.
Gil can be seen performing alongside Adam Pally and Ben Schwartz in their sketch and improv group, Hot Sauce, who just came back from the 2007 Montreal Comedy Festival where their sketch show was directed by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Their performance was written up about in the Hollywood Reporter - "Also, young New York sketch trio Hot Sauce attracted some attention Thursday night, with agents and others lauding their offbeat skits…" TimeOut NY also has said that Hot Sauce "likely has a future in late night." Both their sketch shows, 4th Floor Walk-Up and Hot Sauce Sells Out, were TimeOut NY 'Critic's Pick'. Their digital short "Ysketball" also won Timeout NY's 2006 Short Film of the Year.Check them out at hotsauceacademy.com.
Gil is a member of the improv team Death by Roo Roo. His sketch and improv performances at UCBT also include his one man show Buzzy Shore's Master Class in Comedy, the Harold teams fwand and Killebrew, The Real Real World, Cagematch, host of the Dirtiest Sketch Show in NYC, Sketch Cram, as well as many other shows.
He has studied improvisation under Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Armando Diaz, Billy Merritt, Michael Delaney, Anthony King, TJ Jagadowski, Dave Pasquesi and others since 2002. He has a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Studio Art from Binghamton University. He's also appeared on Saturday Night Live and Late Night w/Conan O'Brien.
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