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Sketch 201 — Advanced Sketch Comedy Writing

Monday 6-9pm starting Feb 04, 2008
Prerequisites: Completion of Sketch 101
Cost: $350

In this course students will get to foster their individual voice as a comedy writer. A number of techniques and writing styles will be defined. Students will go from first draft to the mounting a fully realized stage show of sketches written by the class.

Students should be prepared to work each week outside of class, preparing sketches for presentation in class. Students must bring a written comedic sketch to the first class.

Students will be required to see two live sketch shows before the end of the course.

Class Size: 10 Students

Sketch 201 - Advanced Sketch Comedy Writing

This class will help you foster your individual voice as a writer, and help define a number of techniques and writing styles that will best allow you to embrace that voice as a writer. Furthermore, this class will take you from the beginning to the end of the process of mounting a fully realized stage show of sketches written by the class.

Students should be prepared to work each week outside of class preparing sketches for presentation at class. And students must bring a written comedic sketch to the first class.

Maximum class size is 10.

Pre-requisite Sketch 101.

No Class February 18th.

Neil Casey

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Neil Casey has been performing at the UCB since 2002 after completing his training in long-form improvisation in 2001. He has studied improv with Armando Diaz, Michael Delaney, Kevin Mullaney, Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts.

Neil has a B.A. in English with a concentration in Drama and a minor in Theatre from the University of Delaware and has studied medieval and classical theater as well as stage directing under Dr. Heinz-Uwe Haus, internationally renowned Brecht scholar and former director of the Deutsches Theater.

Neil has performed regularly at the UCB Theatre in shows including Your Favorite Thing (sketch), The After School Super Power Hour, Instant Cinema, GameFace (sketch), The 4/20 Show (sketch) and Krompf as well as on the weekend house teams Monkeydick and currently Death By Roo Roo each and every Friday Night. He has directed shows at the UCB including Slow Night, Buffoons, Katie Dippold's One-Woman Murder Mystery, That's My Booze, Sidecar Presents: Condiment City and God's Pottery Saves the World.

Neil has appeared in shows for Channel 102, Promos for Comedy Central, and in the upcoming Adult Swim series Fat Guy Stuck in Internet.

Neil has also worked as the one-man IT Department for the UCB Theatre since May of 2006, so if you have any questions about using this site, you can ask him after class.

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