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Character Writing and Performance with Amanda Xeller

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 8-week course introduces students to the fundamentals of writing and performing solo characters. Utilizing physicality, sound, costumes and props, contextual prompts and writing prompts, students will write and perform characters unique to them each week. This class will also cover key concepts and terminology in sketch and character writing. Bring a notebook and a pen - let's get started.

Instructor: Amanda Xeller

Amanda Xeller is a character comedian, sketch writer, and director residing in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured across the United States, Canada, and as a part of several Sketch Festivals including most recently San Francisco (Jan 2025). She won the Lifetime Achievement Award at Montreal Sketchfest '22.

She’s been on Adult Swim, Disney+, in music videos, short films, on podcasts, etc. 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 gives 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*

Jul 28, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Aug 4, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Aug 11, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Aug 18, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Aug 25, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Sep 8, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Sep 15, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
Sep 29, 2025, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
at TBA
(at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)

Show Schedule*

Oct 4, 2025, 4:30 PM
at Magnet Theater
(254 W. 29th Street)

_{*scheduling subject to change}