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Improv 101 — Improv Basics

Tuesdays 6-9pm starting Apr 01, 2008
Cost: $325

Students will learn the fundamentals of long-form improvisation. Core concepts covered include using character agreement to make your scenes succeed, developing character, character status, object and environment work, “playing at the top of your intelligence,” and heightening (finding ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish).

This course also introduces the specific vocabulary of the UCB Training Center.

This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long. 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: 16 Students

Improv 101 - Improv Basics

A great introduction to long form improvisation: learn to create great scenes through agreement, support, playing to the top of your intelligence, object and environment work, and strong clear character choices.

Maximum class size is 16.

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.