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Sketch Writing Level Two with Chet Siegel

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 is an advanced sketch writing workshop that will give you the experience of working as a writer on a professional comedy show. Students will learn how to better craft sketches, expand their writing portfolio, collaborate with a team of writers, and produce their own sketches for performance. The class will conclude with two graduation performances, in which students will be responsible for casting, rehearsing, directing, and producing their work for the stage. Prerequisite: Sketch Writing Level One and instructor approval. 8 weeks and 1 graduation performances. APPLICATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 2ND.

Instructor: Chet Siegel

Chet Siegel is a NYC based, West Virginia raised actress and comedian. She teaches improv and sketch at the Magnet and ran Magnet's sketch program from 2014 - 2016. She performs with Magnet Theater TourCo, UCB's veteran improv team, The Lawfirm, and UCB Maude Team, What Would Do. She also writes, produces, and performs in videos for UCB Comedy and Above Average with UCB digital team, Brinkman.

She has appeared on Search Party on TBS, and performed Off and Off-Off Broadway in productions, workshops, and readings for Ensemble Studio Theater, Primary Stages, Rattlestick, The Mint, New Georges, Rising Phoenix Rep, & more. You may have heard her voice on Studio 360, BBC Radio, The Truth, and some industrial insurance ads.

She studied acting at BADA, Sarah Lawrence, & Primary Stages; she studied improv and sketch at Magnet Theater, iO Chicago, & UCBT NY with Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Joe Bill, James Eason, Rachel Hamilton, Joe Wengert, Neil Casey, & many more.

If you have a dog, please let her pet it. It will make her day.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

Oct 9, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 16, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 23, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Oct 30, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 6, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 13, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 20, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)
Nov 27, 2018, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at The Magnet Training Center
(22 West 32nd Street, bet. Broadway and 5th Ave., 10th floor)

Show Schedule*

Nov 30, 2018, 7:00 PM
at Magnet Studio Theater
(22 W. 32nd St, 10th floor - Room A)

_{*scheduling subject to change}