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Improv 301 — Harold Structure

Sundays 3:15-6:15pm starting Mar 16, 2008
Prerequisites: Completion of Improv 201
Cost: $325

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

Improv 301 - Harold Structure

Learn about openings, group games, and 3rd beat connections and put it all together to perform your first Harolds.

Prerequisite: Completion of Improv 201

No class Sunday March 23rd.

Maximum class size is 14.

Lennon Parham

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Lennon Parham is currently a member of the UCBT Touring Company and the house team, Reuben Williams. In recent months, you could find her flailing about as Nomi Malone in the hit stage show, Showgirls: the Best Movie Ever Made. Ever! or as Sandy Michaelson, Solid-Gold Dance Understudy in the improvised Real Real World. She is also co-creator and performer of The Adventures of Lock & Kay, a two-woman show about the rise of a Pop Superstar Duo. Previous New York Improv and Sketch credits include Kill Your Darlings, The Shoves, Dillinger, We Built This City on Rent Control (Second City NY) and Blindspot. NY Theatre credits include Crepuscule, Hold the Fat, Until We Find Each Other and many other workshops with the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and MCC's young playwrights group. She holds a BS in Theatre from the University of Evansville in Indiana and taught French for 2 years at TL Weston High School in Greenville, Mississippi with Teach for America.

Student Feedback

Lennon was fantastic. So supportive and offered so much constructive feedback. She's really dedicated to the quality and intelligence, and it shows."

"Lennon did a great job of balancing skills, direction, education and overall fun in class."

"I've been doing improv for ten years and I learned more in Lennon's class than I have in all ten years.