The Sketch Comedy Writing & Performance Workshop (Level 2) provides an opportunity to take the skills learned in the Foundations workshop and apply them on an ongoing basis. Participants write and pitch sketches, meet weekly for writing & performance coaching, and perform in a monthly sketch show at ACME Comedy Hollywood.
ACME has been producing great sketch comedy in Hollywood for over 20 years, and currently features the weekly online TV sketch show HOLLYWOOD SATURDAY NIGHT, with a celebrity guest, featuring all new sketches for every episode, which is performed in front of a studio audience and broadcast LIVE online. Hollywood Saturday Night has been a fixture in Hollywood for several years and because of this challenging format the writers and performers have a working environment that is more like a professional television show than any other sketch show in L.A. The Sketch Comedy Writing & Performance Workshop is an opportunity to learn the ACME method, which has been developed over many years and continues to be refined by the ambitious pace of Hollywood Saturday Night.
The workshop includes:
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Identifying your comedic strengths - understanding what makes you funny and developing characters that suit you.
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Learning to write for others as well as for yourself.
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Tuning your writing skills to best support your comedic strengths, and those of your fellow cast members.
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Pitch sessions in which participants present their sketch drafts and get professional feedback.
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Performance coaching to best emphasize your character choices & comedic abilities.
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Learning to work with a team as a comedy ensemble.
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A monthly showcase where participants get the opportunity to perform on the famous ACME stage.
Prerequisite: Completion of the Comedy Writing & Sketch Foundations Workshop (Level 1) is required before taking this Level 2 workshop.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION (ONLINE) REQUIRED.
Ongoing,
3-hour group
classes,
plus
showcase
opportunities.
Class size
limited.
Tuition:
$99/month
Class meets 3 or 4 times a month.
Workshops:
Wednesdays,
7:30
- 10:30 pm
Sketch Show:
Wed night,
once a month
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NOW
The
workshop fills
up quickly -
Register
today!
ABOUT THE
INSTRUCTOR
Joseph
Limbaugh has
over 15
years of
experience
in the
fields of
improvisational
and sketch
comedy. His
television
appearances
include Curb
your
Enthusiasm,
Scrubs, That
70's Show,
Yes Dear,
and many
others. He
is a
co-founder
of Dad's
Garage
Theatre in
Atlanta,
where he
worked as
the Improv
Director for
4 years
before
moving to
Hollywood.
He has
performed in
numerous
festivals
and worked
extensively
with Keith
Johnstone,
Del Close,
Stan Wells,
Randy Dixon,
and Dan
O'Connor.
The main
focus of his
improv career has
been
blending the
playful
experimentation
of Chicago
style improv
with the
solid
narrative
theory of
Johnstone's
work. He
has
developed
and extended
many improv
forms
including
improvised
cartoons and
the soap
opera
format. He
has worked
with and
directed
dozens of
celebrities
including
Debra
Wilson,
Jimmy Pardo,
Scott
Thompson,
Topher
Grace,
Felicia Day,
Alex
Borstein,
and Brian
Cranston.
He is
currently
the Head
Writer and a
cast member
of the
HOLLYWOOD
SATURDAY
NIGHT
sketch
comedy show,
and the
director of
the
mainstage
improvisational
show
HOLLYWOOD
DREAM ROLE,
both of
which are
online TV
shows
broadcast
live from
the famous
ACME stage.
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