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Character Level One

Character Level One with Amanda Xeller

Sign up Class Days: Tuesdays 7pm - 9pm (in-person)
Begins: Feb 18, 2025
Ends: Mar 25, 2025
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 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 the annual Moxie Sketch Lab for women, trans, and non-binary comedians.

Amanda studied at the Magnet Theater, Annoyance NY, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Movement Theater, Barrow Group, and with Complicité in London, England (oo la la). She's an alumna of the National Theater Institute (la di da). Amanda also holds a BA in Theatre from Fairfield University where she received The Award for Outstanding Service to the Theater Arts Program for her achievements and pursuits in comedy (my my my).

Amanda grew up in a forest on an alligator-filled bayou in Houston, Texas. She wishes she could sing like Justin Hawkins.

Full Session Schedule

Session Schedule*

  1. Feb 18, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  2. Feb 25, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  3. Mar 4, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  4. Mar 11, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  5. Mar 18, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  6. Mar 25, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)

Show Schedule*

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