Sketch Workshop: Finding the Game of the Scene

Learn to identify what makes scenes and sketches work, and how to expand and explore scenic ideas with the greatest dynamism and variety while maintaining unity, focus and integrity. Attendees are asked to bring one original sketch of 5 pages or less with copies for readers.

Prerequisites: Open to all students

About the Instructor: Michael Delaney has been a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since its inception in 1998 where he has performed, written and directed countless scripted and improvised shows. Current running shows include The Swarm, The Stepfathers and Gravid Water.

Acting credits: The Mr. Show Experience, Veep, The Other Guys, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Onion Movie, Onion News Network, SNL, Human Giant, Will Ferrell?s You?re Welcome America, A Final Night With George W. Bush on Broadway, regular performer on Late Night With Conan O'Brien 1999 - 2009.

Directing: UCB's Harold night and Maude Night, Brian McCann's Leisure Hour, Small Men (Time Out NY pick best sketch show 2013), Peter Gwinn's The Confidence Ladder, June Rafael & Casey Wilson's Rode Hard and Put Away Wet (USCAF, Aspen), John Ross Bowie's Paid to Stand Around, Naked Babies; Emotional Stuntmen, Matt Dwyer's Harmful If Swallowed, Respecto Montalban, Marooned, The Cadillac of Nightmares, Regina, Gosforth's Fete at Atlantic Theater.

Former artistic director and current senior instructor in sketch writing and long form improvisation at UCB NY, adjunct Columbia University film department for comedy writing. As UCB's director in residence Delaney has trained generations of comedians including Bobby Moynihan, Mindy Kaling, Ellie Kemper, Donald Glover, DC Pierson, Adam Pally, Ben Schwartz, Casey Wilson, Julie Klausner, Katie Dippold, Brett Gelman, Chris Gethard, Zach Woods, Neil Casey, Joe Wengert, Lennon Parham, Jessica St Clair, Maggie Carey, Brett Gellman, Chris Kelly, Marika Sawyer, Tracey Wigfield, Aubrey Plaza.