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Improv 101 — Improv Basics

Saturdays 3:30-6:30pm starting Feb 27, 2010
Cost: $350

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

NO CLASS APRIL 3

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante has been at UCBT since 1999, and he is proud to serve as the theatre's Artistic Associate. At UCBT, John has appeared on the Harold teams Petrol, T.R.U.C.K.S, The Fucking Kennedys and Scootch, and was also a cast member on the internet reality show Project: Improviser. He has written sketch comedy for various UCBT Maude teams and sketch groups. John was a co-founder of the acclaimed New Jersey improv group Possible Side Effects , whose weekly improv show The Comedy Revolution ran from 1997 to 2002. He is not the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.