Comedic Acting Class For Teens with Anthony LeBlanc

Saturday, February 22 2025, 12—3 p.m.

This workshop is intended for teens that consider themselves working actors or want to be working actors and is open to any level of teen that is actively participating in performing on stage or screen at any level (even if it is the school play or making content for online on a regular basis).

Comedy gets its power from observing and then commenting on the world around us. As comedic actors, we gain our power by learning how to display that commentary through the characters we bring to life, the words we say, and how we say them. Once we start to understand what makes something funny and why people laugh at it…we can become true masters of the Stage and Screen (even one attached to a keyboard).

This Workshop uses Improv, Acting, Scene Study, and a dash of Comedic Writing and Structure to help the actors learn to take any comedic material and bring it to life.  

Workshop Objectives

• Learning how jokes are structured and how to understand how they work truly

• Understanding how improv can be a powerful tool for connecting with your cast-mates and characters, working with acting notes, and being prepared when changes are thrown your way. 

• Learn how to break down a script and understand the jokes, characters, themes, story, and overall structure. 

• Learning to play all of the different levels of scenes and their characters

• Improving acting preparation and skills needed to work on a set.