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Character Level One

Character Level One with Amanda Xeller

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Check below to see the full schedule for each session, see if your class skips a week for a holiday, and check out the date and time of your class show(s).

Class Description

This class will introduce you to the basics of solo character writing and performance. Over the course of 6 weeks, students will generate characters that they will write and perform from weekly assignments. 6 Weeks. 1 Performance.

Instructor: Amanda Xeller

Amanda Xeller is a character comedian, sketch writer, and director residing in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured across the States and in Canada. She won The Lifetime Achievement Award at Montreal Sketchfest ‘22.

She’s been on Adult Swim, Disney+, in music videos including "Go Fish" by Gymshorts, on Ground Floor and The Farce Report, and was in the short film "All Aboard The Gravy Train," which premiered in Cannes. She was on the stand up episode of the Chompers podcast with Gimlet Media. She's competed in 3 comedy competitions and won all of them baby!

Amanda produces Character Night, which is regarded as one of the best character showcases in NYC, and the annual Moxie Sketch Lab for women, trans, and non-binary comedians, which is a massive undertaking giving comedians a crash course in writing and performing in an original sketch show.

Amanda graduated from the Terry Knickerbocker Studio Acting Conservatory in May 2024. She has studied comedy at the Magnet Theater, Annoyance NY, & Upright Citizen's Brigade and clowning at Movement Theater, Barrow Group, and with Complicité in London, England.

Amanda’s originally from Houston, Texas. She’s a runner, a drummer, and lover of horror movies.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Feb 18, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at Cre8ive NYC
    (134 West 29th Street. 2nd Floor)
  2. Feb 25, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at Cre8ive NYC
    (134 West 29th Street. 2nd Floor)
  3. Mar 4, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  4. Mar 11, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at Cre8ive NYC
    (134 West 29th Street. 2nd Floor)
  5. Mar 18, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  6. Mar 25, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at Cre8ive NYC
    (134 West 29th Street. 2nd Floor)

Show Schedule*

  1. Mar 29, 2025, 6:00 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
    2. *scheduling subject to change