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Sketch Writing Level One

Sketch Writing Level One with Ashley Glicken

Sign up Class Days: Thursdays 6:30pm - 9:30pm (in-person)
Begins: Jan 22, 2026
Ends: Feb 26, 2026
Price: $299

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 sketch writing. You will learn how to develop your ideas and turn them into hilarious sketches. Each week the class will cover different techniques and different types of sketch comedy. Students will be given weekly assignments to write and workshop in class. 6 Weeks. No experience necessary.

Instructor: Ashley Glicken

Ashley Glicken is a writer and improvisor from Highland Park, Illinois. Ashley trained at Magnet Theater, The Second City Chicago, iO Chicago, and the UCB Theatre in New York. She’s made a solemn vow to never take another level one improv class again.

Ashley is a writer on the Magnet sketch team The Executives (check them out on Friday nights!). Outside of the Magnet she is an improv coach, contributor at ClickHole and has been featured on the Reductress Podcast Mouth Time. She also performs with her indie improv teams Can’t Catch A Cab and AVA. They perform wherever/whenever!

In addition to comedy Ashley has degrees in art history and contemporary art theory. She tries to insert art stuff into a lot of her comedic work and it suffers greatly for this reason. But if you ever want to chat about the semiotics of postmodernism, she would be game.

Check out her Instagram stories! Her handle is @petiteilanit

You can also check out her twitter if you want, but it’s awful!

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Jan 22, 2026, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  2. Jan 29, 2026, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  3. Feb 5, 2026, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  4. Feb 12, 2026, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  5. Feb 19, 2026, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  6. Feb 26, 2026, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
This class does not have a show/performance