Discover Your Voice Through Stand Up and Storytelling

Take a Stand-Up, Storytelling, or Public Speaking Class

In a stand-up comedy class you’ll learn how to find your unique voice while creating and delivering solo material with an improvisational approach. Students will strengthen their writing and workshop their own material. Learn how to experiment, get outside your comfort zone, and discover your unique style.

Take a Stand-Up, Storytelling, or Public Speaking Class

Stand-Up Lab: Expanding Your Set

Ready to take your stand-up to the next level? Second City’s Stand-Up Lab gives you the space and support to sharpen your joke writing and performance skills. In every class, you’ll have dedicated time to write and test your jokes, while receiving personalized feedback and assignments based on your strengths and goals.

Each teacher brings a unique perspective to the Stand-Up Lab, so you’re welcome to return again and again to develop new material and gain different insights. You’ll also have the chance to test your material at Second City’s open mics, and by the end of the term, you’ll perform in a showcase to put all your hard work on display.

Prerequisite: You must have completed Stand-Up 1 or have one year of stand-up experience.

Public Speaking

Do you want to become a better public speaker? Do you feel nervous, unsure or even dread when you give presentations and speeches? This class will give you the tools and skills necessary to deliver effective and engaging speeches. You will learn and practice public speaking theory in a way that is fun and challenging. This class provides participants with a theoretical foundation of public speaking along with several opportunities to practice, refine and reinforce their learning. Develop greater public speaking success professionally and personally.

Storytelling Level 101

Story is everything. Whether it’s inspiration for your next script to understanding yourself a bit better, learning what makes for a great story (and how to make it uniquely yours) is ultimately what allows us to connect, engage and understand what the heck this human experience actually is. No previous writing or performing experience is necessary. By the end of this course, you will have a strong collection of stories to choose from for wherever your storytelling journey should take you next. This course culminates in a performance of your story.

Stand-Up 2

Build on the skills developed in Stand Up 1, honing your comedic voice through a variety of exercises and personal feedback. Class culminates in a final performance.

Stand-Up 1

In Stand Up 1 you will develop yourself as a solo comedic performer by writing and workshopping your own material. By understanding how earlier stand-up comics evolved, you will experiment outside your comfort zone and experiment until discovering your own unique style. Students will have regular writing assignments during the term. Class culminates in a final performance.

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Discover Your Voice Through Stand Up and Storytelling

Take a Stand-Up, Storytelling, or Public Speaking Class

Stand-Up Lab: Expanding Your Set

Public Speaking

Storytelling Level 101

Stand-Up 2

Stand-Up 1

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