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Sketch 201 — Advanced Sketch Comedy Writing

Saturdays 3:30-6:30pm starting Mar 29, 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.

Charlie Sanders

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Charlie Sanders was raised on the mean streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. He started doing comedy at Comedy Sportz in Minnesota. Later he moved to New York where he joined the Chicago City Limits Touring Company. He has been performing and writing at UCB since 2001. You may have seen him in such shows as "Charlene Figures it All Out", "Proceed With Honor"and "Buffoons." He was a proud member of the award winning sketch and improv group Police Chief Rumble. He is a member of the UCB Touring Company and a frequent actor on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

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