Improv 401: Harold Workshop
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Improv 301 within previous two years
- Scheduled
- Tuesdays 7-10pm
- Start Date
- Tue January 15, 2013, 7:00pm EST
- Price
- $400.00
Improv 401 serves as the end official "end" of our improv program. This course offers students the chance to strengthen their individual skills while giving them more practice with the long form improvisation performance known as the Harold.
The course focuses on playing truthfully, to the top of your intelligence, while practicing agreement and support. Students will be sensitive to the games of their scenes, and connect the scenes into one cohsive piece (the "Harold").
Teachers will offer more individual feedback at this level.
Course meets for 8 sessions, each 3 hours long.
Students will take part in at least two class performances, generally held at the UCB Theatre.
Students required to see at least 2 improvised shows at the UCB Theater before the end of the course.
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.
