The Writer’s Room: Sketch Writing Workshop w/ Ann Maddox

Sketch writers! Interested in submitting for next year’s Hawaii Sketch Comedy Festival? Or write your own sketch show? Have sketches you like but not sure if they work? Join us in the writer’s room!

We will go through your sketches with a table read, find a game that best fits your idea, and then as a group pitch jokes for it as you would in a writers room. We will then spend the remainder of the class working on pitching sketch ideas and finding either a solid game for you to follow, or form a basic outline for your sketch.

Please bring with you:
Notebook and pen to take notes.
One sketch and at least four copies to read with the class. (If your sketch has a lot of characters maybe consider bringing an extra copy)
Pitches for sketch ideas!

About the Instructor:
Ann Maddox has performed at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles since 2005, in several sketch shows such as Baby Hungry, Charlyne Yi Show, UCB presents, Other people’s stuff, Make That Sandwich! and most recently, the one act sketch play Talking Is Hard, which just finished it’s year long run at UCB.
She has also performed improv on the Harold team Lincoln’s Bedroom and wrote sketch comedy for Maude Teams Nice Kitchen and Hot Mess. In 2011 she was a cast member of the annual CBS Diversity Showcase, featured as a performer and writer. She has written and performed her own UCB shows Machu Picchu and Battle of the Funny Bands with her music/sketch band Machu Picchu. They have appeared in stand up and variety shows such as Comedy Death Ray, Tomorrow Show, Garage Comedy and the Las Vegas Comedy Festival.
Ann Maddox has been in several commercials playing either a weird coworker and/or a stoner type. You may have seen Ann in The Office as a pregnant telemarketer, an artsy hipster in Two Broke Girls, a bubbly game show host on Fuel TV’s Stupid Face,eating bird poo on Web Soup, and a Japanese panda suited criminal in Todd Rohal’s Catechism Cataclysm (currently on Netflix)! She also often appears in College Humor and Funny or Die videos.
You can catch her this fall on TBS in The Pete Holmes Show and on IFC with The Birthday Boys!

*limit 13 students
*Unfortunately we are unable to give refunds for this workshop