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Special — Special Class

Sundays 3:15-6:15pm starting Jun 01, 2008
Prerequisites: Must have previous UCBT class experience. See course description.
Cost: $325

Storytelling and Solo Work

Learn how to use your untapped humanity and embarrassing moments in a way that can reach a wide audience. You will finish this class able to fill in the blank, "----------- is the story of my life."

Each student leaves class with a six-ten minute showcase-able set of autobiographical material. The first half of the class is filled with fun exercises to derive all the life experience that already lies within you. From that hilarious material, you will find your final piece. The second four weeks of the class focuses on polishing and perfecting your story, which will stand alone in the class show, but can also be a part of a bigger solo work. Learn to dig inside your own life to find humorous, relateable, material, which unifies an audience by making them laugh at their own experiences through your brave performance. Additional focus is on getting through the fear of being judged for our honesty, and true life experiences. In the past, many students have gone on to produce autobiographical one person shows, or perform on the storytelling circuit, or complete their memoir.

Prerequisite: Completion of Improv 101 or Sketch 101

No class June 29th & July 6th.

Maximum class size is 12

Margot Leitman

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Margot Leitman regularly appears as various characters on "Late Night With Conan O' Brien," in addition to appearances on VH1's "Best Week Ever," ESPN's "Cheap Seats," AMC, the Style Network, E!, Comedy Central and NBC Broadband. Most recently she can be heard as the voice of "Fox" on the new Spike Tv cartoon "The Team." Her monthly sex-themed storytelling show "Stripped Stories" (co-hosted by Giulia Rozzi) has a cult following has been called "Fresh, honest and raunchy? by BUST Magazine and was a featured Village Voice choice and Time Out NY critic's pick. Her critically acclaimed solo show "Just Here For the Day" had a six month run at the UCB Theatre (both NY and LA) in addition to her follow up piece, "Slow Night" (co-written by Sarah Burns) which also ran for six months at the UCB Theatre and was a New York magazine critic's choice. Margot has been featured in Glamour magazine, and the books "Fifty Dates Worse Than Yours" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes." She has written online for the Lifetime Network, College Humor.com, EHow.com and in print for Playgirl Magazine. Her stories will appear in three different anthologies slated for publication in 2008/2009. http://www.margotleitman.com http://www.strippedstories.com

Student Feedback

This class was amazing. I have never performed before and after taking this class I feel I have the confidence and knowledge to get up onstage and give it my all! -Michael Jaros, former student