- Performance
- London
- £225-£250
- Next: 8 x Monday nights from Monday 9 September, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
STAND-UP COMEDY WRITING COURSE
9 x Mondays, 6.30pm - 8.30pm, 9th September - 4th November 2024
New material showcase on 28th October
Weekly sessions @ Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 4AF
(A vibrant venue full of creative activity - and a bar!)
£250 for the 8 sessions and the show
£225 repeat fee
(maximum group size = 15)
My Stand-up Comedy Writing Workshops are friendly, supportive and inspiring. The sessions are for you if like to create new material and develop your stand-up writing skills. The course is for:
* Gigging acts,
* stand-up course graduates
* anyone with other kinds of comedy experience
* or anyone who'd like to start stand-up with a real focus on the material.
I am a comedy writing specialist and a director so from me you will receive:
* writing techniques, inspiration and a forensic eye on the writing, homing in on how to make material work.
* and a director's perspective on your performance of your material - for the material to really land you need to deliver it well and bring it to life.
At the end of the course perform a 7 mins set of brand new material
Across seven sessions you will be guided through a series of inspiring writing exercises and creative prompts. Everyone will get up on the microphone every week, and we'll also look at developing your persona and delivering your material so it works. Plus on the eighth week we'll do a new material showcase so you can get your work from the course in front of an audience. You'll become a sharper, funnier performer, your creativity will be expanded, you'll meet some great people and will have a truly memorable experience.
On the course you will have a weekly forum to try out stuff in front of a friendly and supportive audience of fellow comics who will give you constructive feedback and you will receive notes and direction from leading comedy director and teacher Chris Head. You will explore your comedy persona and develop your voice, in order to inspire material that works for YOU. You'll learn explore fresh angles for coming at material, you'll work with a range of proven techniques for generating ideas and you'll get clear and practical feedback for how to improve your work.
And you can return to the course and do it again as I am always refreshing the content and you will be working on new material.
It's a friendly, supportive space where you'll feel comfortable trying stuff. Each week works like this:
- Everyone gets up on the mic to do an inspiring creative exercise and then later to share material you have been working - so there is no question of being left to just watch (unless you actually wanted to one week).
- often the session begins with a quick writing exercise where you're given a subject, an angle and a technique to play with and you have 5 minutes to write something. Believe it or not, this does produce the beginnings of some good material. Alternatively we do exercises that are more improv in basis that again get you started on ideas.
- then you bring in the material you have been working on outside the class want to share to get feedback from Chris and the group (up to 3 mins each week). There is time to discuss the material with other groups members and Chris writes notes post sessoin.
- then at the end you come up on the mic and do a quick exercise to sow the seeds of new material to work on.
Between the sessions you will be working on a mix of material you started to develop in the sessions and other material you are working on - and as you'll be learning writing techniques you will be drawing on the class even when working on ideas that didn't begin there.
I ran beginners stand-up courses in London for over 15 year and have now moved on to run Stand-up Comedy Writing Workshops for anyone who wants stand-up writing skills, techniques and inspiration. This feels like a natural progression as I am a comedy writing specialist and work one-to-one on material with all sorts of comics, and students who have attended other stand-up courses often then come to me for a deeper focus on writing.
If you are new to my coaching and want a flavour of my approach, have a look at this video:
Stand-up Writing Problem/ Solution Technique
