Improv 201: Game of the Scene
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 101 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Tuesdays 6:15-9:15pm
- Start Date
- Tue June 19, 2012, 6:15pm EDT
- Price
- $350.00
The UCB Training Center teaches quality comedic scenes focus on one central comedic idea: referred to as "The Game" of the scene.
Students will be taught: 1) identifying "games," 2) heightening - finding new ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish, 3) realizing how patterns support the "game," 4) second beats (returning to scenes later in a piece).
This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long.
Students will take part in a class performance, generally held at the UCB Theatre.
Students are required to see at least 2 improvised shows at the UCB Theater before the end of the course.
Admission to 301 after the completion of this course is not guaranteed. Students will be judged on their application of concepts that they have learned in Improv 101 & 201. The Training Center will send placement notification to students within 10 days of the Improv 201 graduation performance. Students may not enroll in Improv 301 before receiving this notification.
Class Size: 16 Students
Class does not meet June 26
Admission to 301 after the completion of this course is not guaranteed. Students will be judged on their application of concepts that they have learned in Improv 101 & 201. The Training Center will send placement notification to students within 10 days of the Improv 201 graduation performance. Students may not enroll in Improv 301 before receiving this notification.
Ben Rameaka, Teacher
Ben Rameaka is an improviser, actor and voice over artist. He has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Vermont and an MFA from the now defunct Actor's Studio program at the New School. He has been in many UCB productions including KILLGORE, Greatest Concert Ever, and the hit show "Waiting For Obama: A Night At The Hall Of Presidents" which went to the San Francisco Sketchfest. He performs on the UCB house team BADMAN most Tuesday nights and one Monday a month on the UCB sketch team Gorilla Gorilla. He is also the voice of Bullfrog Suntan Lotion, Trojan Condoms, and Powermat. He recently starred in the ESPN film "Silly Little Game" and presently, somewhere on the internet, he is an interactive host named Dale for Novell and SUSE Linux Enterprise's interoperability lab. Whatever that means.
