Sketch Writing Level Two

Sketch Writing Level Two with Nat Silverman

Sign up Class Days: Mondays 6:30pm - 9:30pm (8 sessions, 1 tech, 1 show)
Begins: Jun 23, 2025
Ends: Aug 16, 2025
Price: $375

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


In Sketch 2 you will continue to grow as a writer, learning to re-write and polish your sketches into final, producible drafts that can be staged in the final class show. This class is for students who are interested in building a stage sketch portfolio and/or becoming sketch writers on a house team. No performance requirement, but you may have the opportunity to perform in the class show. Must have taken Magnet Sketch 1 or Equivalent.

Instructor: Nat Silverman

Nat Silverman is a writer, director, and performer from New York City. She is the current Program Director for the Magnet's Livewire sketch program. You can see her perform sketch comedy, improv, and stand-up onstage at the Magnet Theater, UCB, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Caveat, and festivals around the country. She has also written for McSweeney's, Awf Magazine, Off Q Comedy, NYC Webfest-selected series Six Story Walkup, and many many wonderful sketch teams.

Nat is a 4th generation New Yorker, and as such has access to the hidden secret subway system that they don't let transplants ride.

Full Session Schedule


Session Schedule*

  1. Jun 23, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  2. Jun 30, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  3. Jul 7, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  4. Jul 14, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  5. Jul 21, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  6. Jul 28, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  7. Aug 4, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  8. Aug 11, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
    at TBA
    (at a studio space TBA in the vicinity of Chelsea, Manhattan)
  9. Aug 16, 2025, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)

Show Schedule*

  1. Aug 16, 2025, 4:30 PM
    at Magnet Theater
    (254 W. 29th Street)
  2. *scheduling subject to change