Comedy Writing for
Kids & Teens

For the homework doers and skippers, the class clowns and book readers: this 10-week program teaches you the basics of comedy writing! Turn your ideas into scripted skits – your best will be read in the last week by actors! Make new friends, gain confidence, learn structure, and laugh! 

Sketch Up will be on Zoom but run like an SNL comedy writers room. There will be two classes--one for students in Grades 5-8 and one for Grades 9-11. The classes will be led by Tom Scudamore, a British sketch writer along with Anna Paone, Dragonfly's Artistic Associate.

Both classes will be Saturday afternoon. Grades 5-8 from 1:30-2:45 EST and Grades 9-11 from 3:00-4:15.

Class size will be limited to no more than 8 kids per group, but we must have a minimum number of students registered by the second week to run the class. 

Dates: October 1-November 19.

Students will walk away having written 10 sketches and some of the sketches will be performed during the last class by experienced actors.

RSVP for the first class below. It's free! 

If you like it, continue for the remaining 7 weeks for only $140 for the entire session.

Instructors

Tom Scudamore

Anna Paone

Tom Scudamore is a community artist, sketch writer, and improv and drama facilitator, born and residing in the United Kingdom. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s MA Applied Theatre program, he is currently coordinating creative arts courses for his city’s council. Tom’s mission is to get young people of all backgrounds using their imaginations to produce work that is humorous and even change-making, seeing this process as effective in boosting confidence and expression, speed of thinking and vocabulary. Tom has facilitated virtually and all around on several topics: on comedy with young people arts-providers; equality with adults with needs; team building with nurses; and pedagogy at the University of Sydney. 

Anna is a writer, director, filmmaker, and actor. NY theatre: Love Parade, #LEAR (Cordelia). NJ theatre: Our Town (Emily), Talley's Folly (Sally), Arms and the Man (Raina), The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Honey), and more. Film and online: "Our Lady of the '80s" (writer, director, and actor), the upcoming Caprices, Shark Jumpers sketches, and "Minute Made." Anna has worked on nearly all of Dragonfly's shows including directing Gormenghast, In the Next Room, and Having Our Say. She has acted in many shows including The Coarse Acting Show, Arms and the Man, Talley's Folly and The Importance of Being Earnest. She has also appeared in numerous short sketches. Anna is a co-founder of Dragonfly. 

Sign Up Here for the First Free Class