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Comedy Buffet Workshop

Comedy Buffet Workshop
Co-Sponsored by Vets4Vets
This workshop is a wonderful mixture of comedy improvisation and standup comedy writing techniques. If you are curious about one or both this is a safe and supportive place to try them out. In this two-day workshop you will play fun, easy comedy improv games. Then after break you will learn easy standup comedy writing exercises and techniques. On day two, continue comedy improv games. After break those who wish to can perform routines, they wrote using the standup writing exercises or just tell a simple story such as My vacation disaster. Beginners and experienced welcome. Military veterans and veterans of life (thats you, older people) welcome. Prepare to laugh!

April 27-28
2:00-4:30pm

Cost: $80.00
Veterans pay at door for special pricing.

Veterans Memorial Building Post Room
846 Front St. Santa Cruz, CA

Instructor: Carol Rogers

Carol Roberts is a teacher of standup and improv comedy in the Monterey/Santa Cruz area. She was a member of Femprov, a popular all-female comedy improv troupe in San Francisco. And a standup comic (Ellen Degeneres was her opening act) and 1983 winner of the San Francisco Cable Car Award for Entertainer of the Year.
B.C. (Before Comedy) Carol earned a B.A. in Communications and Psychology from Antioch College and an M.A. in Gerontology from the University of Southern California. A.D. (After Comedy) she worked as a Bereavement Counselor for Hospice.
Carol has combined social service with comedy to conduct Accidental Social Skills experiential workshops where she uses comedy improv games to improv social skills of youth on the Autism Spectrum. Carol also teaches standup to adults in Santa Cruz and comedy improv to older adults at the Carmel Foundation (its great for memory, cognition and connection). Her workshops stress creative comedy thats respectful of all people.
No animals were hurt in the development of her career.
More information can be found at www.CarolRobertsComedy.net.