Throughout the year, ComedySportz presents intensives in a variety of topics featuring well-known master teachers from across the United States. These workshops have limited seats, and are designed for those with five or more years of professional improv performance experience.
The 2010 roster is still being developed, so check back to see which exciting classes have been added.
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Improv for Television with Chris Tallman
No more sessions are scheduled this year. Stay tuned for info on our 2010 class schedule.
$125 
Television and
improv veteran Chris Tallman
brings his wealth of experience to the
classroom. Just as acting on camera is
different than acting on stage, the same
goes for improv. Learn how to make strong,
immediate choices for characters and playable
scenes that will help you get cast.
CHRIS
TALLMAN has been improvising
professionally since 1987. He's appeared in
several shows at ComedySportz -currently
with the Main Company, The High,
U-sical
and
The Harold of
Galactus- as well as at the
Upright Citizens Brigade and IO West. You've seen him on TV in Thank
God You're
Here,
Reno 911!,
How I Met Your
Mother, House, The Sarah
Silverman
Program and Chocolate News.
He's a creator, too, the brains behind and
star of the sci-fi comedy series TimeBelt,
which can be seen at Channel101.com. Feature
credits include Werner Herzog's Rescue
Dawn
and Reno 911!: Miami, in which he was
attacked by an alligator.
Intro to Musical Improv with James Thomas Bailey
No more sessions are scheduled this year. Stay tuned for info on our 2010 class schedule.
$295
A truly unique
workshop that finds the fun in
improv singing. Participants will learn tools
for improvising songs, including song
structure, rhyming, harmony and style. In
addition, players will gain genuine
confidence while discovering their own
voices. Taught in a supportive atmosphere
that nurtures both the beginner and the more
experienced singer, this rarely offered
intensive workshop will fill quickly.
JAMES
THOMAS BAILEY is Artistic
Director of the National Comedy Theatre and
ComedySportz Los Angeles, the longest running
show in Los Angeles. In addition to
ComedySportz, he has produced more than fifty
shows in Los Angeles, including Kitty
Carlisle Hart in her one-woman show My
Life on the Wicked Stage and the west
coast premiere of Robert Fulghum's All I
Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten. Mr. Bailey has appeared on
The Drew Carey Show
and in Tuesdays
with Morrie, a film starring Jack Lemmon,
based on the best-selling novel. He was also
a regular on the nationally syndicated
television show Quick Witz and on
World Cup Comedy
on the PAX network. In addition, James has served as a creative
consultant/ trainer for Universal Studios,
Walt Disney Feature Animation, ABC Television and
Coca-Cola, among others. He has proudly
served on the boards of the Los Angeles Stage
Alliance (Theatre LA), the California
Educational Theatre Association (CETA), West
Coast Ensemble Theatre and the advocacy
committee of the California Alliance for Arts
Education (CAAE). James created the largest
teen improv program in the United States (The
High School League®) and is well known in
theatre education. He recently received the
Professional Artist Award from the California
Educational Theatre Association and was
inducted into the California Thespians Hall
of Fame. He is the current president of the
World Comedy League and president of
the California Educational Theatre Association.
Advanced Musical Improv with James Thomas Bailey
Date to be announced.
Prerequisite: Intro class or consent of instructor.
TBD
Date to be announced. Don't you wish you knew more about this one? It's really, really great.
