Writing for Late Night TV: Level 2 (Five Weeks)

In this advanced, five week workshop, students will develop a writing packet with notes and ideas contributed from the class, in-depth discussions and development of segments, jokes, games and sketches in the genre of late night comedy writing. The class will be kept to a maximum of ten students in order to provide individual feedback. You'll learn:

Joke pitching and writing off pitches - joke writing into monologues
Segments/ sketch break down and ideas - first drafts (conception to structure to rough draft)
Sketch/ Segment re-writes and additional ideas
Creating a packet - jokes, sketches, segments & monologues (polish of what was done in the previous weeks, constructing the packet
Re-writes on all materials for packet, finished product

Price: $425

Dates:

Wed. November 1st, 7-10PM
Wed. November 8th, 7-10PM
Wed. November 15th, 7-10PM
NO CLASS Wed. November 22nd
Wed. November 29th, 7-10PM
Wed. December 6th, 7-10PM

Instructor: Dave Hanson

Dave Hanson worked in the writer’s room at Chelsea Lately for 150 episodes as well as contributing to Inside Amy Schumer and as a staff writer on several pilots. Dave is a published writer, actor and comedian living in New York City, and can be seen in the film Trainwreck.

Dave is also an internationally produced playwright whose published comedy Waiting For Waiting For Godot opened in London at the St. James' Theatre in 2016. His other published works include The Exit Interview, Cafe d'Automatique, and Thank You For letting Me Have Sex With You. Other writing credits include, Inside Sports (Versus), Beer :30 (Versus) and Gene Pool (Fox).

As an actor and comedian, Dave has appeared in Trainwreck (Universal), Crashing (HBO), The Detour (TBS), Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central), The Onion News Network (IFC).

Dave is a graduate of UCB and IO West as well as a member of The Collective NY, The Stillwater Writers Group, The Dramatists Guild of America and is a writer/performer for the New York sketch group The Shorts Show.