Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center

(4246) Improv 101 For Actors Mon/Wed 3-6pm Ryan Karels

Improv 101 For Actors: Improv Basics

Scheduled
Mon/Wed 3-6pm
Start Date
Mon August 10, 2009, 3:00pm EDT
Price
$350.00
You must get permission to register for this course. If you are interested in taking this course please EMAIL classes@ucbt.net with your acting resume attached. Once we review your resume, notice will be sent to you regarding your eligibility. Please do not register and pay for this class without consent of the Training Center Registrar.

IMPROV FOR ACTORS teaches the fundamental techniques of long-form improvisation in an environment catered to practiced, trained actors. Building upon acting skills, the class covers the same key exercises and lessons as IMPROV 101. At the same time, the class emphasizes the listening, making choices, and playing so important to acting. During the last two weeks of the class, students will explore and practice using techniques of long-form improvisation in two often neglected applications of being a professional actor: auditions and extended runs - when it's new and when it's boring.

The class qualifies as a prerequisite to Improv 201.

Make up classes are NOT available.

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 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

Ryan Karels, Teacher

Ryan has been at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 2001, performing with KROMPF and on Harold night with Decoster, Creep and Filth. He is an Artistic Associate of Les Freres Corbusier (HELL HOUSE, HEDDATRON, BOOZY and THE FRANKLIN THESIS), was in the original off-broadway cast of GUTENBERG, THE MUSICAL!, and might be seen around the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Ryan teaches improvisation at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and directed I STALK YOU ON FACEBOOK at Long Island University, CW Post. He holds a film degree from Yale University, where he stopped worrying and learned to love linear editing machines.

Schedule

August 2009
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  • Class #1

    UCB NYC Classroom 3
     
  • Class #2

    UCB NYC Classroom 3
     
  • Class #3

    UCB NYC Classroom 3
     
  • Class #4

    UCB NYC Classroom 2
     
  • Class #5

    UCB NYC Classroom 4
     
  • Class #6

    UCB NYC Classroom 3
     
  • Class #7

    UCB NYC Classroom 3
     
  • UCB NYC Classroom 3
    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
    (btwn 6th & 7th Ave)
     
  • UCB NYC Classroom 2
    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
    (btwn 6th & 7th Ave)
     
  • UCB NYC Classroom 4
    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
    (btwn 6th & 7th Ave)
     
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  • Class #8

    UCB NYC Classroom 3
     
  • Performance

    UCBT NYC
     
  • UCB NYC Classroom 3
    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
    (btwn 6th & 7th Ave)
     
  • UCBT NYC
    307 W 26th St (btwn 8th & 9th)

     
Online Registration is not available.
This Course is Completed.