Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center

(4690) Storytelling and Solo Work 101 Sundays 3:15-6:15pm Margot Leitman

Storytelling and Solo Work 101: Storytelling and Solo Work 101

Prerequisites
Completion of Improv 101 or Sketch 101
Scheduled
Sundays 3:15-6:15pm
Start Date
Sun March 14, 2010, 3:15pm EDT
Price
$350.00
Learn how to use your untapped humanity and embarrassing moments in a way that can reach a wide audience. You will finish this class able to fill in the blank, "----------- is the story of my life."

Each student leaves class with a six-ten minute showcase-able set of autobiographical material. The first half of the class is filled with fun exercises to derive all the life experience that already lies within you. From that hilarious material, you will find your final piece. The second four weeks of the class focuses on polishing and perfecting your story, which will stand alone in the class show, but can also be a part of a bigger solo work.

Learn to dig inside your own life to find humorous, relateable, material, which unifies an audience by making them laugh at their own experiences through your brave performance. Additional focus is on getting through the fear of being judged for our honesty, and true life experiences. In the past, many students have gone on to produce autobiographical one person shows, win at the Moth Storyslams, perform on the storytelling circuit, or complete their memoir. NO CLASS APRIL 4

Margot Leitman, Teacher

Margot Leitman regularly appears as various characters on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," in addition to appearances on VH1's "Best Week Ever," ESPN's "Cheap Seats," AMC, the Style Network, E!, Comedy Central and NBC Broadband. Most recently she can be heard as the voice of "Fox" on the new Spike TV cartoon "The Team."

Her monthly sex-themed storytelling show "Stripped Stories" (co-hosted by Giulia Rozzi) has a cult following, has been called "Fresh, honest and raunchy? by BUST Magazine and was a featured Village Voice choice and Time Out NY critic's pick.

Her critically acclaimed solo show "Just Here For the Day" had a six month run at the UCB Theatre (both NY and LA) in addition to her follow up piece, "Slow Night" (co-written by Sarah Burns) which also ran for six months at the UCB Theatre and was a New York magazine critic's choice.

Margot has been

featured in Glamour magazine, and the books "Fifty Dates Worse Than Yours" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes." She has written online for the Lifetime Network, College Humor.com, EHow.com and in print for Playgirl Magazine. Her stories will appear in three different anthologies slated for publication in 2008/2009.

www.margotleitman.com

www.strippedstories.com

Schedule

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    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
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    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
    (btwn 6th & 7th Ave)
     
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  • Performance

    UCBT NYC
     
  • UCB NYC Classroom 5
    145 W 30th St. 4th Flr
    (btwn 6th & 7th Ave)
     
  • UCBT NYC
    307 W 26th St (btwn 8th & 9th)

     
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This Course is Completed.