STANDUP 201 - Feb 23, 2012 - Tom Keller

STANDUP 201: Standup Writing Workshop

Regular Fee:$125.00
Availibilty:Class is limited to 10 students. Only 5 spots left.
Registration:Registration for this class is closed.
Start Date:Thursday, February 23, 2012 @ 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?

Experienced comics can contact DSI to start with Standup 201.

CLASS REQUIRES OUTSIDE WRITING.

CLASS WILL MEET FOR 90 minutes every week.

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Class Dates and Times*

Thu, Feb 23, 2012 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Mar 01, 2012 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Mar 08, 2012 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Mar 15, 2012 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater
Thu, Mar 29, 2012 6:00 pm DSI Comedy Theater

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

Instructor: Tom Keller

Tom Keller

A versatile and well-traveled comedic performer, Tom recently received one of the biggest honors of his career when he was one of only 20 standup performers chosen nationally for the upcoming Great American Comedy Festival in Johnny Carson's hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska. Winner of the Carolina's Funniest Comic competition in 2010, Tom 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 is currently the Director of Standup for DSI, where he teaches classes and produces the weekly showcases at DSI and Chapel Hill's Back Bar.

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. After an internship with MLB.com covering the Florida Marlins, he moved to Greensboro, N.C., 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 now been a proud DSI company member since February 2009 and has had the privilege of studying there under Zach Ward, Paula Pazderka, Harrison Brookie, Jonathan Yeomans and Shane Smith, and in workshops with Joe Bill, Jill Bernard, Dave Buckman, Rachel Madorsky, Anthony Atamanuik, Shawn Wickens, Josh Cohen and Eddie Brill among many other wonderful people. He won DSI's 2010 March Madness tournament as a member of THE TIMBERPUPPIES and the 2010 Dual Duel championship as half of seven-time CageMatch winner SPARKY ANDERZANDER. He currently appears bimonthly with house Harold team LORDINGTON, P.I. and every Friday at 10:30 with DSI's free flagship show, MISTER DIPLOMAT.

Tom is an avid Michigan State fan, referees youth basketball at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA and works as a content writer for 3 Birds Marketing in downtown Chapel Hill.

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.