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Improv 201 — Game of the Scene

Saturdays noon-3pm starting Apr 12, 2008
Prerequisites: Completion of Improv 101
Cost: $300

The UCB Theatre Training Center bases their curriculum around the idea that all quality individual comedic scenes focus in on one central comedic idea – this idea is referred to as “The Game” of the scene.

This course will focus on teaching students how to use the idea of “The Game” to create their improvised scenes. Students will be taught how to identify “games” within their scenes, and how to use the concept of heightening to properly play out their scenes once they have them. (Heightening is finding new ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish.) The class will heavily focus on learning how to use patterns to fill out comedic scenes based around one central “game.”

Students will also be introduced to the idea of “second beats,” or returning to scenes, characters, and concepts from earlier in an improvised piece.

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 201 - Game of the Scene

Students will learn to create great scenes by finding and playing the game and explore these games through second beats, laying the foundation for performing the Harold.

Prerequisite: Improv 101 or previous improv training from IO

Maximum class size is 14

Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood

NO CLASS MAY 24

Danielle Schneider

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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.