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Stand-up Comedy Writing Workshop (London)

Stand-up Comedy Writing Workshop
  • Performance
  • London
  • £225-£250
Chris Head

Course leader

Chris Head

STAND-UP COMEDY WRITING COURSE

7 x Mondays, 6.30pm - 8.30pm, 9th September -  21st October 2024
New material showcase on Saturday 26th 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

 

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Testimonials

"Such an excellent stand up course! It's obvious that Chris has been fine tuning it, because the whole thing just works so well. It is very practical, Chris has you on the mic every week, so it's much, much more than just a weekly chat about jokes. A different aspect or style of stand up is covered every week, and the weekly writing homework builds up nicely to the final showcase and the improv games make so much sense! If you're after new material, this course is a brilliant place to turn." Carwyn Blayney

"Hadn't been on stage for a while. Chris's course was a great way to get my creative wheels turning again. Covered a load of ways to create and present your material. Sign up for a Chris Head course NOW. You know you want to." Marco Bellini

"I wanted to thank you for a really great stand up writing course! It really has been a different approach and so  insightful and useful for me." Adam Pickard

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