Planet Ant Training Center

WORKSHOP

Improv to Sketch: Content Generation & "The Pitch RO" 

In this workshop, you will learn the techniques to ideate, pitch and improvise sketch premises that blossom into polished, show-ready sketches. Discover the "Pitch RO" with an ensemble--a rapidfire premise pitch session followed by improv, feedback, and re-improvisation. Leave this workshop with exercises and techniques that will take your ideas from brain to stage and some rock-solid sketches in your pocket.

PART ONE: Content Generation — Ideating pitches with content-generation exercises, types of scenes and genre overview, the Running Order, the Pad Set 

PART TWO: Mastering and running the Pitch RO

BIO

Ashley Blair is a queer comedian, improviser, director and alum of the Second City New York Mainstage, where she co-created and starred in five sketch revues. She is the former director of the NY Company Ensemble at Second City and co-producer of Holy F*ck Comedy Hour at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. Blair graduated from the Columbia College Comedy Studies Summer Program in 2016 and began her performance career as an understudy for the Second City Chicago ETC Stage, Mainstage & National Touring Company. She's performed her solo musical act at venues across the country and composed/directed two full-length musicals: “Boyband the Musical” and “How To Win An EGOT.”

The New York Times called her "a whirligig of comic energy" and "one of those actors whose oddball physicality and split-second intensity make every scene funnier."

Follow her @ashblairxoxo