Improv 4 Teens Times Square NYC

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  • New York City area High School Residency: Stand-Up Comedy Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    New York City area High School Residency: Stand-Up Comedy Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    Stand-Up Comedy at its core is story telling, a combination of creative writing and public presentation. These are skills any student will need to stand out in their future endeavors. And the skills taught in this course transfer to many others. We create leaders and better students, empowered to listen and focus on and off stage. EMAIL for more information. NYC DOE VENDORS

    Finding Our Voice, Agency

    One of the amazing side effects of this course, as we create a fun safe space to create and share our stories is each student having a chance to succeed in baby steps. The first time a student gets an unexpected laugh in support of their work, they start to believe and trust in their own worth. Over the course of a few weeks, students develop their own style, their own voice.

    Empowering a Better Creative Process

    We teach students how to attack a new project. Just start. Simply brainstorm a list of ideas then get onstage and talk. Then brainstorm details and talk. Comedy is so much easier when we realize, we don’t have to be funny. Not at first. The secret is never TRY to be funny, clever or great. Those are functions of ego and insecurity. Our true talents don’t emerge on the scene until we embrace being ok with not being funny.

    Humor Builds a Better Brain

    William Fry, Stanford’s University’s late, great humor Guru, said that humor builds a better brain every time we compare to otherwise dissimilar things.

    Now 17, Carolyn is working with pro company, interning as a teacher assistant and more!

    It’s not until the third lesson plan that we truly begin to FIND THE FUNNY. We provide numerous ways to up the ante, teach how to trim the fat from unneeded set up, add analogies, exaggerate, consolidate, and the all powerful magic three.

    Similarly we start to teach presentation tricks. From day one we discuss the basics of facing audience, projection and diction. If the joke isn’t heard or understood it isn’t funny.

    Putting on a Show

    Every class is a mock open mic, a rehearsal for a real performance. Every session leads to a final performance. Having the end goal focuses students. Plus you can get great pics and vids for your school social media and yearbooks.

    Bringing Sketch Comedy to your Students

    There are a few ways to bring this program to your students.

    1. Simply buy the book and run the class. The paperback is just $9.99. Buy 20 copies as text book for $200 and let the fun begin, anywhere in the world. PS book is FREE via Kindle Unlimited or 2.99 via Kindle.
    2. Bring Walt Frasier to your school for a master class in comedy. $500 for up to 2 hours includes 20 copies of the book. Walt Frasier will lead the class in some improv games to launch the creative spirit, discuss his approach to brainstorming, hear some pitches, and set you off onto a successful session. We could also host this workshop at our Times Square NYC theater.
    3. THE FULL RESIDENCY Our team will drop by your classes up to 10 times, 20 hours. Walt Frasier himself at least 2-3 times, plus one of his teaching artist for all 10. As is, this will produce an entire show of live sketches and videos. Partnered with your la Guage arts teacher, develop into a full ELA or cultural arts elective, showing videos of classic sketches appropriate for all students, episodes of comedy TV and movies, discussing these works, as well as comedic short stories and going deeper into the history of comedy. You can also create additional collaboration and rehearsal time beyond our teacher attendance. $3000 include 10 sessions, 20 hours with one of our teachers, at least 2 sessions with Walt Frasier, 20 copies of the book, and optional online hosting of videos.
    4. THE FULL PROGRAM: Bring all of our programs to your school. Leverl 1 Improv Comedy. Level 2 Stand Up Comedy. Level 3 Sketch Comedy. Every class is designed to be self contained, with no experience necessary. In progression, the complete program delivers a population of confident creative powerhouses ready to take on the world in any profession.

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    Author, Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)

  • New York City area High School Residency: Sketch Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    New York City area High School Residency: Sketch Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    Sketch Comedy is a popular source of entertainment with roots as far back as Ancient Greece. This course leads students from brainstorming ideas, developing ideas, writing a final sketch and performing a live show and / or producing original video. The purpose of this course is to get students excited about creative writing, story telling, collaborating with others, and confidence public presentation. Through the lens of this currently popular form of entertainment we introduce students to classical literature, comedic theater and more. EMAIL for more information on bringing our programs to your students. NYC DOE VENDORS (Improv Theater LLC)

    WHY SKETCH COMEDY?

    Sketch Comedy is a short play or film usually grounded in a singular comedy purpose. Topics for comedy are as endless, bound solely by the creativity of the writer(s). Sketch Comedy as a class combines cultural arts and language arts. We are basically ELA and THEATER but by presenting to the students as a classroom in Comedy, more students get excited about the process. The class provides a powerful experience and serves as a gateway for students to get excited for further study into literature, writing and public presentation. In this class students will:

    1. Study the history of comedy, from Ancient Greece thru early TV and Radio.
    2. Learn to write an original short play via brain storming exercises, collaboration, first drafts and rewrites, and a final script.
    3. Learn to produce and perform live show and video.

    Producing Final Sketch

    Working backwards, let’s discuss how powerful this training is to a student. While this course could lead to a student working at Saturday Night Live by age of 19 like Eddie Murray, Dave Chapelle, or Pete Davidson, most will benefit in more meaningful ways. Our final end product, a live sketch comedy show and/or produced video teaches students how to produce and present content of any kind

    The number one fear in his world is public speaking. Sketch Comedy class is possibly the closest scenario to working on a corporate team, whether in marketing, project management and even scientific labs. Creating a fun safe space we develop self confidence fierce and public speaking skills, as well as basic skills in acting for stage and screen.

    We work with corporate teams daily to teach presentation and collaboration from skills, using Improv Comedy. This course looks to teach those skills to high school and middle school students. While students share the laughter, they are preparing for be leaders in any industry.

    Students live on their devices. We can debate through pros and cons of teens using social media. But unless there is a total societal collapse, chances are, the future is now, and being able to use these devices for good is possibly the most powerful tool a student can learn for their future success.

    Developing Sketch Comedy Scripts

    Every TV show – Skech comedy, sitcoms, episodic dramas, soap operas, dramedies, etc – has a writers room. Every week a head writer, called a show runner, hears ideas, assigns writing projects for scenes and episodes. The ROOM is a place to bounce around ideas, read thru scripts, and discuss edits. The show runner greenlights a final script, and the greenlights for production.

    This mimics this process. In the early seeks we will have exercises to brain storm ideas and details. Later weeks, we will outline and write a rough draft. Eventually we will produce a final script to be produced live and or as a video.

    Along the way we will use the ROOM to discuss, improvise, read drafts, and otherwise work thru ideas to help writers produce a final script.

    Meanwhile, students develop a deeper understanding of creativity writing, story telling, characters, settings, plots, themes, and more.

    History of Comedy

    The history of comedy is the history of creative writing, philosophy, literature, theater and human civilization. Again, by using a popular form of entertainment, we are able to reach students and peak their curiosity in many areas of academic study. Students become better students of history, language arts and even the sciences. We give academic study a practical application with an end product that students can be proud.

    Bringing Sketch Comedy to your Students

    There are a few ways to bring this program to your students.

    1. Simply buy the book and run the class. The paperback is just $9.99. Buy 20 copies as text book for $200 and let the fun begin, anywhere in the world.
    2. Bring Walt Frasier to your school for a master class in comedy. $500 for up to 2 hours includes 20 copies of the book. Walt Frasier will lead the class in some improv games to launch the creative spirit, discuss his approach to brainstorming, hear some pitches, and set you off onto a successful session. We could also host this workshop at our Times Square NYC theater.
    3. THE FULL RESIDENCY Our team will drop by your classes up to 10 times, 20 hours. Walt Frasier himself at least 2-3 times, plus one of his teaching artist for all 10. As is, this will produce an entire show of live sketches and videos. Partnered with your la Guage arts teacher, develop into a full ELA or cultural arts elective, showing videos of classic sketches appropriate for all students, episodes of comedy TV and movies, discussing these works, as well as comedic short stories and going deeper into the history of comedy. You can also create additional collaboration and rehearsal time beyond our teacher attendance. $3000 include 10 sessions, 20 hours with one of our teachers, at least 2 sessions with Walt Frasier, 20 copies of the book, and optional online hosting of videos.
    4. THE FULL PROGRAM: Bring all of our programs to your school. Leverl 1 Improv Comedy. Level 2 Stand Up Comedy. Level 3 Sketch Comedy. Every class is designed to be self contained, with no experience necessary. In progression, the complete program delivers a population of confident creative powerhouses ready to take on the world in any profession.

    ← Back

    Thank you for your response. ✨

    Author, Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)

  • High School Field Trips Times Square NYC Improv Comedy Shows, Workshops & Broadway Classroom- NYC DOE VENDOR

    High School Field Trips Times Square NYC Improv Comedy Shows, Workshops & Broadway Classroom- NYC DOE VENDOR

    Bring your students to our Times Square NYC theater for a day of laughter and valuable life skills training. Our shows present hilarious interactive musical comedy skits and songs improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. Our workshops deliver more laughs, and simply playing these improv games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence and more. Add the pizza party for a complete experience – local shop sends the New York pizza pies. EMAIL us asap to book your next trip! NYC DOE VENDOR

    SHOWS

    The cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH delivers hilarious interactive musical comedy skits and sings improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. Live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide since 2002.

    • Group Rates, Saturdays/ Sundays 3pm $15pp (minimum 10, $150). No additional purchase required for non profit groups. (usually $30 plus 1 drink minimum)
    • Day Time Field Trips (Monday thru Friday before 5pm) $600 up to 40 students, $15/additional student, $1000 up to 100 students. $10/additional student (ask about Title 1 discounts for larger groups). Once minimums are met we offer limited complimentary seating for teachers/chaperons.
    • Pizza Party, 2 large slices and bottled water (soda and juice options available upon request). Add $15pp
    • Mini Workshop- 45-minute session of games that teach students about working together, listening and focus, and story telling. Add $10/student

    Broadway Classroom – Improv Workshop

    Improv is a powerful tool. Improv IS Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Simply playing these game develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence and more. We use to teach corporate team building, leadership, sales and customer service.

    The complete Broadway Classroom is a two hour masterclass, leading students through a series of warm-ups, technique builders and performance games that could be used to build a show at your school.

    Almost weekly we have teen groups from around the world working with our top notch professional teaching artists. We also work with teachers. Improv is powerful professional development programming.

    Our Governing Principles

    • HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense! – Walt Frasier’s #1 Rule
    • YES AND… #1 Rule in Improv
    • LISTENING is the #1 Skill in Comedy

    We create a safe fun space to play. Story and play are the best ways to learn. We use these same programs to train corporate team building, leadership, sales and service skills.

    Live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide since 2002!

    Check put our public shows off-Broadway. For smaller groups we can often add a public show.

    Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)