Dates: Wednesdays, beginning June 3rd, 6 classes over 6 weeks.
Time: 7-9:30pm
Location: Theatre Delicatessen, 119 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3DA
Tube: Farringdon
Cost: £138 (£115 plus £23 VAT)
Class Size: 12
Instructor: Phil Whelans
To sign up, go here, https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/saturday-level-1-improv-class-d68d2e-a6aba2

Course Description:

Surreal sketches, naturalistic sketches, observational sketches, character sketches, satirical sketches: We’ll talk about them all. And we’ll write them. Lots of them. Let’s try and identify some of the ingredients that that give the germ of an idea the best chance to grow into a magnificently plumed parrot. Let’s give ourselves the best chance of writing the sketches that could save the planet. Bring a pen. Prerequisite: None.

About Phil Whelans:

Phil Whelans is a Comedy writer performer. He does both in his BBC Radio 4 sitcom, My First Planet and with Pros from Dover, who were resident sketch team for two series of The Infinite Monkey Cage and were in 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (both Radio 4.) He script edited BBC Scotland’s sketch show Velvet Soup and Radio 2’s Jason Byrne Show and he’s written and performed with an unsettlingly broad spectrum of people on TV and Radio, from Chris Morris to Basil Brush via Joan Rivers, Kevin Eldon, Chris Tarrant and Brian Conley.

Phil wrote and performed sketches for BBC1’s Stupid, punched up three series of BBC1’s Life of Riley and helped out on Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball. He’s written topical mirth for, among others, the 11 o’clock Show, The Big Breakfast and The Now Show, he wrote the animation scripts for BAFTA-nominated KNTV (“Channel 4 at its best” The Guardian) and co-wrote a whole show for Spitting Image. He’s done impro all over the world, appearing in numerous failed TV and radio impro pilots and he accidentally saved the planet when he wrote the script for Big Al Gore’s Live Earth show at Wembley Stadium. He improvises in two groups – Grand Theft Impro and Monkey Toast - he directed Phil Nichol’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, The Naked Racist and he plays bass in punk covers band Beergut 100 with Kevin Eldon and Bill Bailey.