Two exciting announcements:
1) SketchFest Seattle is offering a 5-week sketch writing workshop this summer, taught by the one-and-only Mike Mathieu of The Cody Rivers Show. This is an excellent chance to elevate your comedy-writing skills to the next level, or learn what it takes to get started, with one of the best sketch writers around. All levels are welcome. Do it! You know you want to…
See below for details on how to sign-up.
2) Applications are now available for the 2009 SketchFest Seattle Comedy Festival. We are once again searching the
globe to bring the best comedy to Seattle. This year’s festival will be Sept. 21-26 at the illustrious Theatre Off Jackson.
Details below.
As always, check out www.sketchfest.org for the latest.
Love you all,
SketchFest Seattle
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SKETCH COMEDY-WRITING WORKSHOP:
Seattle SketchShop
Sketch writer, director, and half of the internationally acclaimed duo The Cody Rivers Show, Mike Mathieu, will lead a five-week course in sketch comedy writing, culminating in an informal performance of new work.
With 4+ years and 150+ sketches of experience, Mathieu has learned a few lessons about comedy writing that elevate material above the formulaic norm.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to brainstorm, write, perform, and tweak a scene while anticipating an audience’s needs.
Participants are invited (but not required) to bring any new or in-progress scripts for critique, and will be expected to attend every class, generate new ideas, rewrite, and have a good time.
Seattle SketchShop Details:
Classes will be on Tuesday nights, 6pm-9pm, from June
- 30th through July 28th, at The Seattle Center
- The five-week session will culminate with an informal performance of participants’ work on the final night of class
- Workshop fee is $160 per participant (minimum of five participants, maximum of twelve). Payment is due to secure a spot in the workshop
- If you are interested in participating in Seattle SketchShop please send an email to: info @ sketchfest.org
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Applications are now available for the 2009 SketchFest Seattle Comedy Festival. The deadline is July 1, 2009. Go to www.sketchfest.org for more information and to download an application.
The SketchFest Seattle Comedy Festival is indeed a sketch-oriented comedy festival, but we are also open-minded, and we are seeking innovative comedy of all kinds from around the world. This year we will be accepting applications from any genre of comedy (sketch, improv, stand-up, theater, music) as long as it bears at least some resemblance to sketch (for example: traditional stand-up and improv shows are probably not appropriate, but a stand-up set based on characters and scenes or an experimental hyrbrid improv/sketch show might be). So, if what you got is at all sketch-y, bring it on!
Info: www.sketchfest.org
