Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4220) Improv 201 Wednesdays 7-10pm Ari Voukydis
Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Wednesdays 7-10pm
- Start Date
- Wed July 22, 2009, 7:00pm 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 week of August 12th.
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 week of August 12th.
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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This Course is Completed.