Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4661) Improv 101 Tuesdays 6:15-9:15pm Brandon Gardner
Improv 101: Improv Basics
- Scheduled
- Tuesdays 6:15-9:15pm
- Start Date
- Tue March 2, 2010, 6:15pm EST
- Price
- $350.00
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 NO CLASS ON MARCH 30
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 NO CLASS ON MARCH 30
Brandon Gardner, Teacher
Brandon is a writer, performer, director and teacher at the UCB Theater in NY. A native of Saranac Lake, NY, Brandon graduated from Binghamton University with a degree in Theatre and performed with the improv/sketch comedy group, "The Pappy Parker Players."
Brandon is a member of the UCB TourCo All-Stars with whom he performs and teaches workshops across the country. When he isn't touring Brandon can be seen performing every weekend with Let's Have a Ball, The Curfew and Improv Nerds at the UCB NY and UCB East theaters. As a writer, Brandon has written over twenty original sketch shows with UCB Maude Teams as well as the political one-act play HOT TEA.
Brandon is proud to have been a teacher at the UCB Training Center since 2009 where is the world record holder for level 201 classes taught.
Brandon is a member of the UCB TourCo All-Stars with whom he performs and teaches workshops across the country. When he isn't touring Brandon can be seen performing every weekend with Let's Have a Ball, The Curfew and Improv Nerds at the UCB NY and UCB East theaters. As a writer, Brandon has written over twenty original sketch shows with UCB Maude Teams as well as the political one-act play HOT TEA.
Brandon is proud to have been a teacher at the UCB Training Center since 2009 where is the world record holder for level 201 classes taught.
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This Course is Completed.
This Course is Completed.