This advanced workshop focuses on creating standup from a place that cannot be replicated, emphasizing honesty and telling stories and jokes that resonate with not only the audience but also the comic. We will draw on our lived experience to create performances that stick with the audience long after they've gone.

This is an 8 week workshop generally for those who have taken a level one workshop, or have had some practice performing. Students will write, share, and revise their own original material with the goal of performing a 10 minute set at graduation.

Standup is a writer's sport, meaning students will have to write (in some fashion or another) every week to continually add on and improve their material. It is also a performance art, meaning students will have to deliver this material in order to practice. The class includes exercises to generate content, improve structure, and practice delivery in addition to discussing some of the theoretical frameworks to explain WHY certain jokes work, with examples from professional comics. 

This class is taught by Miles Bunch. Miles has been performing standup for 4 years, performing as a featured comedian and headliner at comedy venues in Athens, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Nashville, and Dallas. Miles maintains a focus on stand up comedy that involves vulnerability and story-telling. 

In our standup classes you will learn the fundamentals of the artform: the basics of writing a joke, identifying a good premise, creating compelling setups, developing and articulating a persona, driving home punchlines, anticipating audience expectations, adding tags, and more.

For all our classes, please wear clothes and shoes you are comfortable moving around in and arrive 5-10 minutes early ready to start. The instructor will reach out with any additional details closer to the start date. If there's a grad show, please take note of the show date and mark your calendar :)