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Improv 401 — Harold Workshop

Thursdays 7-10pm starting Apr 10, 2008
Prerequisites: Completion of Improv 301
Cost: $300

This course offers students the chance to strengthen their own individual skills while simultaneously allowing them more practice with the long form improvisation performance known as the Harold.

One goal of the course is to help students perform stronger scenes. The instructor will use the first half of the course to identify and troubleshoot any weaknesses that the individual players may be demonstrating.

The other goal of the course is to allow students to continue to perform full Harolds. The instructor will use “side-coaching,” or feedback given during an improvised piece as it is happening, in order to facilitate success in the students’ improvised scenes. The instructor will also give notes after each performance in order to enhance and improve the quality of future performances.

This course meets for three hours a week for eight weeks. Students will perform in two class performances at the UCB Theatre – once halfway through the course and once at the end. 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 401 - Harold Workshop

Students will learn more Harold techniques, expand their group game vocabulary, try out alternative long form structures, and continue to hone their skills at the game of the scene. Students will have opportunities to perform at the UCB Theatre.

Prerequisite: Improv 301

Maximum class size is 16

Class meets at Art/Works in 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.