Kick off this fall in the best possible way, by finally finishing your comedic plays, standup routines, sketches, solo shows and screenplays with the industry's top comedy expert Steve Kaplan (best-selling author of "The Hidden Tools of Comedy") - who returns to NYC after teaching his Comedy Intensive workshops around the world to thousands of students in London, Munich and Tel Aviv.
This two-day Comedy Intensive explores the hidden tools and principles of comedy: what it is, how it works, why it works, what's happening when it's not working and what you can do to fix it, and offers proven and practical methods and principles. On day 1, you'll explore the Hidden Tools--useable, practical tools that you can apply immediately to your work. Day 2 focuses on character, structure, comic premise, and specific ways of applying the tools to text. The workshop includes interactive exercises, solo and group writing activities, as well as a liberal use of clips from current and classic comedies to illustrate our points and principles.
Steve Kaplan's NYC Comedy Intensive Workshop, 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m. Saturday and Sunday, October 7-8, 2017. The PIT Loft,
154 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001. COST: $397
REGISTER:
http://www.kaplancomedy.com/product/ny-comedy-intensive-oct-2017
"My brother Pete and I get asked all the time by young writers about our philosophy of comedy. We usually just say "try to make your comedy funny". But from now on I'll just tell those annoying little suck-ups to read your book. It's all in there." - Bobby Farrelly, Writer/Director, There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber
About
Steve Kaplan:
Steve Kaplan has been the industry's most sought-after expert on comedy, having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities. He created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of
Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. He has served as a consultant to such companies as Dreamworks, Disney, HBO, Aardman Animation, and more.
His best-selling
Amazon.com book, The Hidden Tools of Comedy (from Michael Wiese Productions, publishers of the international bestsellers Save the Cat and The Writer's Journey) has been translated into Russian, French and Chinese. Steve's former students have been nominated for 48 Emmy Awards, 11 WGA Awards, 3 Golden Globes, 6 Academy Award, 10 SAG Awards, 6 American Comedy Awards and they've won 10 Emmys, 1 Oscar, 2 WGA Awards, the American Comedy Award and more.
In New York, Steve was co-founder and Artistic Director of
Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, where he developed writers such as Peter Tolan (Analyze This, Finding Amanda), writer and producer
David Crane (Friends, Joey, The Class), writer/producer Tracy Poust (Ugly Betty, Will & Grace),
Michael Patrick King (The Comeback, Sex and The City, Will & Grace),
David Ives (All In The Timing),
Will Scheffer (Big Love), Steve Skrovan (Everybody Loves Raymond)
Howard Korder (Lakeview Terrace), and Mark O'Donnell (Hairspray) and introduced such performers as
Lewis Black,
Nathan Lane,
John Leguizamo,
Mercedes Ruehl and
Oliver Platt. In Los Angeles, he created the HBO New Writers Project, discovering HBO Pictures screenwriter
Will Scheffer and performer/writer
Sandra Tsing Loh; and the HBO Workspace, a developmental workshop in Hollywood that introduced and presented performers such as
Jack Black and Tenacious D,
Kathy Griffin,
Bob Odenkirk and
David Cross (Mr. Show),
Josh Malina and Paul F. Tompkins. At the Workspace, he was Executive Producer for the award-winning HBO Original Programming documentary DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. Steve has directed in regional theaters and Off-Broadway (including
Sandra Tsing Loh's ALIENS IN AMERICA at
Second Stage.)
For more information or to schedule an interview with
Steve Kaplan, please contact event producer Peter
Michael Marino at
pm2entertainment@icloud.com.
