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In Sketch Mode with Amanda Xeller
Class Description
Widen your sketch repertoire or just get some more reps in with this 4 week long Sketch Elective. Writers will be given weekly writing assignments in character, premise, and black out formats where they will hone their voice, practice pitching, and work on generating ideas for themselves and each other. You'll leave with at least 2 brand new sketches!
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*
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Jan 6, 2021, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Jan 13, 2021, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Jan 20, 2021, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Jan 27, 2021, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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