Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisation and Sketch Comedy Training Center
(4751) Improv 301 Thursdays 3-6pm Ari Voukydis
Improv 301: Harold Structure
- Prerequisites
- Successful Completion of Improv 201 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Thursdays 3-6pm
- Start Date
- Thu March 25, 2010, 3:00pm EDT
- Price
- $350.00
If you took Improv 201 in January 2010 or later, you cannot enroll in this course until you receive written notice that you have successfully completed Improv 201. If 10 days have passed since your graduation performance and you have not received this information, please email the registrar at classes@ucbt.net for NY classes or lindsay@ucbcomedy.com for LA classes.
This course introduces students to the long form improvisation structure known as “The Harold,†developed by Del Close.
In the first four weeks, students will study “Group Gamesâ€, scenes that involve multiple performers. Instruction will focus on teaching students a number of different ways to approach performing these group scenes. They will also study a variety of “Openingsâ€, which are stylized methods of using an audience’s suggestion to generate enough content to support a half hour long improvised performance piece.
In the second four weeks of the course, students will put all of the techniques learned in Improvisation 101, 201, and the first four weeks of 301 into action by putting together fully formed Harolds.
This course meets for three hours a week for eight sessions. 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
This course introduces students to the long form improvisation structure known as “The Harold,†developed by Del Close.
In the first four weeks, students will study “Group Gamesâ€, scenes that involve multiple performers. Instruction will focus on teaching students a number of different ways to approach performing these group scenes. They will also study a variety of “Openingsâ€, which are stylized methods of using an audience’s suggestion to generate enough content to support a half hour long improvised performance piece.
In the second four weeks of the course, students will put all of the techniques learned in Improvisation 101, 201, and the first four weeks of 301 into action by putting together fully formed Harolds.
This course meets for three hours a week for eight sessions. 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
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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