Description
Standup 101: The Alchemy of Comedy
Wednesdays 5-7 pm PT, Sept 13 - Oct 11, 2023
Always wanted to try your hand at standup comedy? Been sitting on a notebook of half-baked bits and funny thoughts? Wondering if you’ll ever finally get out there?
Standup Comedy 101 is a 5-week LIVE online workshop facilitated by moi – internationally acclaimed comedian Alicia Dattner. We’ll use a combination of joke-writing exercises, comedy immersion, and roundtable collaboration, totally preparing you to write a five-minute standup set or comic monologue, and perform it in our final show at the “comedy club”.
- Discover your comedic voice
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Get personal & spiritual growth you won’t find at any other standup workshop
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Find supportive, high-quality fellow tricksters
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Write & perform your tight five minute set
5-Week, Live, Online Workshop
Wed 5-7 pm PT, Sept 13 – Oct 11, 2023
Limited Enrollment
Early Bird Rate
$497Â $397
ENDS Sept 1, 2023
Fast-Action Offer
First 3 people to register receive a half-hour punch up session with your facilitator Alicia Dattner ($150 value)
Workshop Structure: What will we do together?
PAN FOR GOLD
- Turn observation into premises
- Mine every day life for humor
- Keep a comedy notebook
- Improvise to create material
- Joke exercises & games
FIND YOUR COMEDIC VOICE
- Clarify your comedic voice
- Learn from comedy masters
- Find moments of gravitas to contrast humor
- Discover what makes you funny
HONE YOUR MATERIAL
- Collaborate and contribute to bits
- Learn memorization tricks
- Get coaching on delivery & timing
- Perform your set at the final show!
But wait, there’s more!
Bonus: 1-1 mini punch-up session with Stephanie, a second comedy coach, before your set
Bonus: Comedy Buddies – a small pod of cracker-jack fellow creatives to spark ideas with
Bonus: Admission to Alicia’s weekly Write Here Now workshop on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays
Our workshop culminates in a final (online) comedy show, featuring your standup set or comic monologue
Bonus
Get The Write Here Now Weekly Workshop
One month of live, weekly online classes – a guided writing space where you’ll have time to generate your material ($129 value).
Jumpstart your process with this juicy, embodied creative workout.
Get in your body and get words on the page.
Meets Tuesdays, 5-7pm PT/ 8-10pm ET and join the bonus class Sundays 5pm PTÂ and Thursdays 9am too!