STANDUP 101 - Aug 19, 2010 - Tom Keller

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STANDUP 101: Standup Writing Workshop

Regular Fee:$125.00
Availibilty:Class is limited to 10 students. Sold out.
Registration:This class is sold out.
Start Date:Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

DSI teaches the art of standup comedy. Learn how to use your persona, build on a premise, develop a joke and generate punch lines until you find ones that really hit. Learn how to spin true stories and rock a routine that both engages and entertains your audience. How can you get the most mileage out of You?

CLASS REQUIRES OUTSIDE WRITING.

CLASS WILL MEET FOR 90 minutes every week.

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Class Dates and Times*

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Aug 26, 2010 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Sep 02, 2010 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Sep 09, 2010 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater

* All classes are 3 hours long unless otherwise noted above.

Instructor: Tom Keller

Tom Keller

Tom has been a proud DSI company member since February 2009. A native of suburban Detroit, he first tried comedy as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, where he would go on to win the campus-wide Last Spartan Standing contest in 2005. He moved to Greensboro, NC, in February 2008 to work as a sportswriter for the News & Record and soon began studying improv with Steve Lesser and Jennie Stencel at The Idiot Box, where he became a member of the theater's featured shortform troupe.

Tom has since had the privilege of studying at DSI under Zach Ward, Paula Pazderka and Harrison Brookie and in workshops with Joe Bill, Jill Bernard, Dave Buckman, Rachel Madorsky, Anthony Atamanuik, Josh Cohen and Eddie Brill. He won DSI's 2010 March Madness tournament as a member of THE TIMBERPUPPIES and the 2010 Dual Duel championship as half of SPARKY ANDERZANDER. He currently appears with the IMPROV SLAM ensemble and house Harold team LORDINGTON, P.I.

As a stand-up, Tom won the Carolina's Funniest Comic competition in 2010 and has been a featured performer at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival, the Laugh Detroit Comedy Festival, the Charleston Comedy Festival and the Laughing Skull Festival in Atlanta. He teaches stand-up and produces the weekly showcase at DSI.

Tom is an avid Michigan State fan, referees youth basketball at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA and works at Laughing Spirit Farm in Saxapahaw.

Student Feedback:

John Sideris at 1:03pm, July 19, 2010
Tom is almost as good a teacher as he is a funny guy. All of us improved more than is reasonable over a six week class.

What Our Students Think About This Course:

Rajeev Rajendran at 7:44am, October 13, 2009
Improv 101 is neither particle nor wave but has qualities of both.