The Cloud Presents Kevin McDonald's "Writing Sketch Through Improv" Workshop at SFSJCF

The Cloud Presents Kevin McDonald's one day intensive "Writing Sketch Through Improv" Workshop at SFSJ Comedy Festival. Students start the day by learning about the basics of sketch comedy and comedy writing. Then Kevin teaches students, the old "Kids in the Hall method of writing comedy sketches through improv". Students play warm up games that lead them into thinking naturally about writing and performing at the same time. Then Kevin will split the class into groups and get each group to improvise a scene. After each scene the class will talk about them, give notes and figure out how the scenes could develop into a whole sketch. Then when all the improvised scenes are done, each group works with Kevin to turn every scene that was improvised, into a fully developed comedy sketch. By the end of the day, the class will have 4 to 7 completely new sketches.

Lunch will be provided.