Sketch & Standup
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SKETCH LEVEL 01

Intro To Sketch Writing: Character, Game, and the Absurd (6 WEEKS)

In this 6-week course you’ll learn the essentials of sketch comedy that will sharpen your writing skills and help you find your own distinctive comedic voice. You will finish this coures with the tools you need to develop characters, premise, Game, and relationship dynamics that get your audiences laughing early and will leave them wanting more!

Tuesdays 8-10pm
starting June 4

ROCHELLE MCCONICO is the founder and CEO of MoonCricket Productions a live entertainment company specializing in interactive, multisensory comedic events. She is a visionary, writer, producer, and performer. In June 2020, Rochelle launched the Amuse-Bouche Comedy Festival to showcase the many great improvisers, comedy podcasters and stand-ups in New Orleans and performed as all three. In 2022, she followed up by co-founding, programming, performing and co-headlining the Lysistrata Comedy Festival, an all femme comedy festival, in New Orleans. Notably she has performed improv at the New York Comic Con (2022), Black and Funny Ocean City Festival (2022), and Baton Rouge Improv Festival (2022); sketch in the Dallas Comedy Festival (2018) and the Los Angeles Diversity in Comedy Showcase (2019), and stand-up in the the Black Girl Giggles Festival (2018) and Tower City Comedy Festival (2022). Rochelle also hosted during the Austin Sketchfest (2022) and will be appearing in the Moontower Comedy Festival in April 2023.

STAND-UP LEVEL 01
WITH ROCHELLE MCCONICO

Fundamentally standup comedy is a conversation. It’s a connection between you and the audience. In this course, you’ll get help plumbing your life and the world around you for humor and connect the fundamentals of standup with your unique voice and point of view. By the end of the course, you’ll understand how to use standup comedy to have authentic conversations AND be funny!