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Improv 301 — Harold Structure

Saturdays noon-3pm starting Aug 07, 2010
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of Improv 201 within previous two years
Cost: $350

If you took Improv 201 in January 2010 or later, you cannot enroll in this course until you receive written notice that you have successfully completed Improv 201. If 10 days have passed since your graduation performance and you have not received this information, please email the registrar at classes@ucbt.net for NY classes or lindsay@ucbcomedy.com for LA classes.

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

NO CLASS SEPTEMBER 4

Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood

Allan McLeod

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Allan McLeod is an actor, writer, and comedian type living in Los Angeles. He attended the University of Alabama where he received a B.A. in Theatre and Film. At UA Allan wrote and performed sketch comedy for the Theatre and Dance Department's bi-weekly Guerrila Theatre show. Allan also won the opportunity to study filmmaking under Tom Cherones (director of Seinfeld, Newsradio) based on a short film he co-wrote.

Allan began taking classes at UCB when it opened on the west coast in 2005. He studied with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Andy Daly, Seth Morris and many others. He began teaching sketch writing and improv at UCBTLA in 2008. In 2009 Allan performed his one man show Allan McLeod: A Rabbit Stole My Car Keys. He has also appeared in many UCB sketch and improv shows including Facebook, Soundtrack, Deep Focus presents The Improvised Movie, The Back Room, 420 Funny, America's Best Comic, Quick 'n Dirty Musicals, Director's Commentary, and Fireball Deluxe presents: Dadquest. Allan is a co-director of the monthly UCB sketch show Sketch Cram, he created & co-hosts UCBTLA's Chatroullette LIVE, and he's a frequent contributor to UCBcomedy.com and FunnyOrDie.com.

Allan has appeared on Comedy Central's Tosh.0, guest starred on the Starz Channel original series Head Case, and was a series regular, as well as a contributing writer, on the MTV cartoon Popzilla. He also wrote for the web ad agency DumbDumb.com, and the Comedy Central sketch show pilot This Show Will Get You High. He recently co-starred in a pilot for Comedy Central, and the feature film Freak Dance. Allan has also appeared in several national commercials.

He can currently be seen performing with his Harold team Arts & Athletics, his sketch group A Kiss From Daddy, and UCB TourCo.

Student Feedback

"Allan really provided a good environment to write and grow as a writer. He was very positive about everything and encouraged everyone to write and explore."