If you have any questions before booking, or wish to set up an alternate payment scenario (bank transfer, payment plan, etc) please contact us!
All bookings are NON-REFUNDABLE. However, for a 5% change of registration fee you may alter your booking before the course start date – deferring to a later term or giving your spot to a friend.
Be sure you understand all of our conditions of participation before signing up.
No prior improv or sketch comedy experience required!
Our Sketch Comedy Writing curriculum launched in late 2016, and is intended to give anyone the tools and theory to start writing sketch comedy for the stage and screen in the tradition pioneered by respected American comedy schools like The Second City and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
The class includes a description of The Improv Conspiracy Theatre's approach to sketch comedy, which has some parallels to our improv program, except written and refined instead of made up on the spot. (Haven't done any improv with us yet? Don't worry, this class is for you!)
Each week students will watch and analyse sketch comedy videos as a group, do table reads of student-written sketches, and discuss possible ways to improve them via rewrites in a collaborative writers' room environment. Each week will feature a different homework assignment (e.g. topical current events sketches, character-based sketches, genre parody sketches, etc.) and a discussion of best practices to ensure that everyone is well-equipped to tackle the assignment.
Students who do their homework each week will leave the course with at least six original sketches, at various levels of polish depending on how much effort they elect to spend doing the recommended rewrites.
As this is a pure writing class, there is no end-of-term performance associated with this workshop.
Date & Time | Location |
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Monday, September 19
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, September 26
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, October 3
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, October 10
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, October 17
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, October 24
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, October 31
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
Monday, November 7
6:30–9:30pm |
The Improv Conspiracy Training Annex - Classroom |
While we don’t anticipate having to change the instructor after registrations open, please be aware that this may happen from time to time.