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Improv 301 — Harold Structure

Sundays noon-3pm starting Mar 09, 2008
Prerequisites: Completion of Improv 201
Cost: $300

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 Games”, 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 “Openings”, 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 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: 14 Students

Improv 301 - Harold Structure

Learn about openings, group games, and 3rd beat connections and put it all together to perform your first Harolds.

Prerequisite: Improv 201

Maximum class size is 14

NO CLASS MARCH 23

Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood

Danielle Schneider

schneider, danielle
Danielle Schneider, an actor and comedienne, is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. You can see her every week as a panelist on VH1's critically praised and highly rated Best Week Ever. Among her many credits she has played a Paris Hilton like debutante on Fox's My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, she starred in Trio's The Pop Culture Round-Up: White Noise, Comedy Central's Contest Searchlight with Denis Leary, was a cast member of VH1's prank show Sledgehammer, guest starred on NBC's Happy Family and Comedy Central's Crossballs.

In 2002, her show Eye Candy, which she co-wrote and starred in, was selected for the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Danielle has made many appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, voiced various characters on MTV's Celebrity Death Match and has been a performer and teacher at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC.