Sketch Comedy Workshop

This is an 8 week sketch writing class starting March 2nd on Sundays 2:00-4:00pm at Flying Squid Comedy (150 Fritz Mar Ln.). There will be a graduation show showcasing the sketches Friday May 2nd.

SCHEDULE

Classes meet once a week for 2 hours. Final show 30-60 minutes. 8-12 students per class.

Weeks 1-3 - Learning and Playing

Weeks 4-6 - Applying and Preparing

Weeks 7-8 - Finalizing and Rehearsing

Final Show - Perform Sketches Live 

OVERVIEW

Are you ready for the big show? Learn to brainstorm, pitch, write, and create your own sketches in a collaborative setting. This is an 8-week workshop introducing the basics of sketch comedy and building up to a final show. From Monty Python to Key and Peele, every comedy nerd has a favorite sketch show. But have you ever wanted to create your own? Learn the basics of sketch comedy and join a writers’ room full of Athens’ funniest storytellers as students write, rehearse, and perform their own sketches in an end-of-the-course-live-audience-all-hands-on-deck-comedy-show-spectacular! 

YOU WILL LEARN:

• A Brief History of Sketch

• How to Develop Your Funny Idea Into a Usable Sketch Premise

• Collaborative Group Writing Skills

• Budget-effective Creative Decision-Making

• Rudimentary Set Design

• How It Feels to Make a Live Audience Roar on Friday Night!*

  
  

*Probably.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Daniell Marlow is a screenwriter from Marietta, GA. He got his start in improv at Kickstand Comedy Club in Portland, OR. Having caught the comedy bug, he moved to Los Angeles to study and perform sketch and improv at the Upright Citizen's Brigade and Groundlings Theaters. In a course with UCB Founder Ian Roberts, he learned his favorite improv mantra - “Clear your mind, be in the moment, fart noise, fart noise, fart noise.”

*Cash price is $200, payable via cash or Venmo (email flyingsquidcomedy@gmail.com to pay with this method).*