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Improv 101 — Improv Basics

Sundays 3-6pm starting Mar 09, 2008
Cost: $300

Students will learn the fundamentals of long-form improvisation. Core concepts covered include using character agreement to make your scenes succeed, developing character, character status, object and environment work, “playing at the top of your intelligence,” and heightening (finding ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish).

This course also introduces the specific vocabulary of the UCB Training Center.

This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long. 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: 16 Students

Improv 101 - Improv Basics

A great introduction to long form improvisation: learn to create great scenes through agreement, support, playing to the top of your intelligence, object and environment work and strong, clear character choices.

Prerequisite: none

Maximum class size is 16

NO CLASS MARCH 23

Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood

Katie Dippold

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Katie is currently a writer for MADtv. She was a cast member of MTV's prank show Boiling Points and has made several appearances on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. A journalism major from Rutgers University, Katie was the writer of Mandatory Lame-Ass Staff Meeting, a TimeOut NY Critic's Pick noted as a "very funny sketch show". She was a member of Police Chief Rumble, awarded "Best Sketch Group" by the ECNY Awards. Katie wrote and performed a one woman murder mystery as well as performed in other shows such as Retraced, Director's Commentary, Reuben Williams, the Channel 102 hit show Gemberling, and also a member of the UCB improv touring company. At UCBTLA, Katie has performed in ASSSSCAT, MySpace and currently with the Harold team Powerwalkers.