“Rich Talarico is one of the all time great Caucasian Improvisers.”
– Tina Fey
Upcoming class:
Saturday, April 18
3:00 – 6:00 pm (PT)
Student Tuition: $75
Auditor Tuition: $30
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Student registration closes at 3:00 pm (PT) on 4/16.
Registration for auditors will open at 4:00 pm (PT) on 4/16
Bring in a 5 page or less sketch or a pitch and work it out in a hands-on setting. This class will be run “WRITERS’ ROOM STYLE.” Students bring in first drafts or ideas for sketches and Rich shares insights from working 15+ years in late night TV (SNL, MADtv, Key & Peele, The Tonight Show) and from experience having written five resident company shows for Second City in Chicago. Open to all levels but some experience is helpful. Students will learn how to contribute to others’ ideas and pitches as well.
*Steve Rogers Photography Austin, TX
Rich will work with students in the order of registration.
Student registrations will close at 3:00 pm on the Thursday preceding each writer’s room.
Registration for auditors will open at 4:00 pm on the Thursday preceding each writer’s room.
Individual classes are held from 3:00 – 6:00 pm (PT) on the following Saturdays:
4/18 (Student registration closes TH 4/16 at 3:00 pm)
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4/25 (Student registration closes TH 4/23 at 3:00 pm)
Registration will open at 6:00 pm on 4/18
5/2 (Student registration closes TH 4/30 at 3:00 pm)
Registration will open at 6:00 pm on 4/25
5/9 (Student registration closes TH 5/7 at 3:00 pm)
Registration will open at 6:00 pm on 5/2
5/16 (Student registration closes TH 5/14 at 3:00 pm)
Registration will open at 6:00 pm on 5/9
5/23 (Student registration closes TH 5/21 at 3:00 pm)
Registration will open at 6:00 pm on 5/23
Rich Talarico is a Peabody Award winning and four-time Emmy nominated writer and producer best known for his work on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele. Rich has also written/produced Review for Comedy Central, FOX’s MADtv, NBC’s Saturday Night Live as well as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.Rich produced and wrote Frank TV for TBS and was a writer/performer on The Sketch Pad for HBO. Rich served as improv coach on the first Anchorman film and did script punch-ups on Mean Girls and the Oscar-winning Get Out.Rich’s most recent feature film script, The Widow Daredevil, was named an official selection of the prestigious 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival. Rich took his first improv class from Stephen Colbert at Chicago’s Second City in 1992 and then went on the road with Second City’s National Touring Company. He later co-created five original sketch comedy revues with Second City’s Etc. and Main Stage Companies.While in Chicago, Rich was involved at Improv Olympic (now iO) under the direction of Charna Halpern and the late, Del Close. Rich played on iO house teams, co-created several shows and performed with early casts of Chicago’s longest-running improv show:”The Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement and Hootenanny”. Rich has appeared in small roles on MADtv, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the feature film, High Fidelity. Rich has appeared in several TV commercials, most notably A&W Rootbeer’s“Mr. Dumass”.
LINKS:
A.D.D. COMEDY with Dave Razowsky – Rich Talarico