Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4256) Improv 600 Sundays 6:30-9:30pm Erik Tanouye
Improv 600: Advanced Performance Workshop
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 501 within previous two years, Application Only
- Scheduled
- Sundays 6:30-9:30pm
- Start Date
- Sun July 26, 2009, 6:30pm EDT
- Price
- $350.00
YOU MUST APPLY TO BE IN THIS CLASS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.
Improv 600 - Performance Workshop
COPS AND ROBBERS
Taught by Erik Tanouye
Students will explore the genres of police drama and the criminal underworld in this show, learning to use their plots and tropes while still finding strong characters and games in scenes.
Half the show will feature hard-drinking detectives, failing marriages, stern bosses, wise-cracking partners, interrogations, stake-outs, grumbling District Attorneys, and those rats from Internal Affairs. The other half will contain crime bosses, their reticent cold-blooded right hand agents, over eager young henchmen (and women), strip clubs, international drug connections, robbery, violence, betrayal, and murder.
Inspired by works like The Wire, The Sopranos, Heat, Homicide: Life on the Street, The French Connection, NYPD Blue, The Departed, Clockers, and Cop And A Half.
This class will perform at the theatre for 4 weeks.
If you are interested in taking this class, send an email to classes@ucbcomedy.com with the subject "Cops and Robbers", by 12pm (noon) on Wednesday July 15th. We will review the applicants and send a notice to those who have been accepted by Tuesday, July 21st.
Prerequisite: Completion of a 501 level Improv Class. The ability to attend all 8 classes. Do not apply for this course if you can not attend all 8 classes.
Maximum class size is 16.
No class August 16th or September 6th.
Improv 600 - Performance Workshop
COPS AND ROBBERS
Taught by Erik Tanouye
Students will explore the genres of police drama and the criminal underworld in this show, learning to use their plots and tropes while still finding strong characters and games in scenes.
Half the show will feature hard-drinking detectives, failing marriages, stern bosses, wise-cracking partners, interrogations, stake-outs, grumbling District Attorneys, and those rats from Internal Affairs. The other half will contain crime bosses, their reticent cold-blooded right hand agents, over eager young henchmen (and women), strip clubs, international drug connections, robbery, violence, betrayal, and murder.
Inspired by works like The Wire, The Sopranos, Heat, Homicide: Life on the Street, The French Connection, NYPD Blue, The Departed, Clockers, and Cop And A Half.
This class will perform at the theatre for 4 weeks.
If you are interested in taking this class, send an email to classes@ucbcomedy.com with the subject "Cops and Robbers", by 12pm (noon) on Wednesday July 15th. We will review the applicants and send a notice to those who have been accepted by Tuesday, July 21st.
Prerequisite: Completion of a 501 level Improv Class. The ability to attend all 8 classes. Do not apply for this course if you can not attend all 8 classes.
Maximum class size is 16.
No class August 16th or September 6th.
Erik Tanouye, Teacher
Erik Tanouye has been improvising and performing in New York since 2001. He has studied with Michael Delaney, Armando Diaz, Kevin Mullaney, Billy Merritt, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and many others.
Erik Tanouye writes for the Maude Team Neighbor Boy and co-wrote the "BP Spills Coffee" video.
As an improviser, he has performed at Harold night for seven years as a member of Grandma's Ashes, Bastian, The Scam, 1985, The Shoves, and Dillinger. He also performed in the shows Proceed With Honor, Red Christmas, and The Mosaic NYC. His directing credits include I Eat Pandas, T.J. Monkeys, and Maude Night, and he has taught workshops at colleges and high schools up and down the East Coast.
Before moving to New York, he improvised with the Dog Day Players at Dartmouth College, where he got a degree in English and creative writing. He also worked for the Telluride Film Festival and has written for and appeared in pilots for Comedy Central and HBO.
He is currently the Director of Student Affairs for the UCB Training Center in New York.
His website is: www.writeitlikedisaster.com [writeitlikedisaster.com]
Erik Tanouye writes for the Maude Team Neighbor Boy and co-wrote the "BP Spills Coffee" video.
As an improviser, he has performed at Harold night for seven years as a member of Grandma's Ashes, Bastian, The Scam, 1985, The Shoves, and Dillinger. He also performed in the shows Proceed With Honor, Red Christmas, and The Mosaic NYC. His directing credits include I Eat Pandas, T.J. Monkeys, and Maude Night, and he has taught workshops at colleges and high schools up and down the East Coast.
Before moving to New York, he improvised with the Dog Day Players at Dartmouth College, where he got a degree in English and creative writing. He also worked for the Telluride Film Festival and has written for and appeared in pilots for Comedy Central and HBO.
He is currently the Director of Student Affairs for the UCB Training Center in New York.
His website is: www.writeitlikedisaster.com [writeitlikedisaster.com]
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