SUNDAYS, 2-5 PM, JUNE 2025
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
In this 6-week course, you'll learn how to create a full sketch comedy show from the ground up. From pitching ideas to producing and directing, you'll be guided through every step of the process. At the end of the course, actors will perform your original sketches live on stage. You'll leave with the skills, confidence, and writing samples you need to launch your own show — or take the next step toward professional comedy writing and production. Whether you're new to sketch or looking to sharpen your skills, this course will set you up to create work you're proud of.
You'll learn how to create a full sketch comedy show from the ground up. Meeting on Sundays, the course is designed to fit easily into your schedule — and if you miss a class, you can catch up with the recordings anytime.
CLASS LOCATION: ZOOM
CLASS TIME: Sundays, 2-5 PM (class can be watched in your own time)
CLASS DATES:
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Sunday, June 8, 2025
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Class Show: July 31st
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Erin McGathy
Erin McGathy has been teaching Improv and sketch since 2008. . She began performing at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Los Angeles and the iO West Theatre in 2006. Whilst in LA, she performed and wrote on several UCB Sketch Shows, as well as The Gentleman’s Club with Bob Odenkirk for the Second City, was on UCB and IO West Harold and repertory teams, and also co-founded the lauded Improvised Tennessee Williams’ team, The Kind Strangers. Erin has performed and taught across the states and Europe, including at the Second City in Chicago, Boom Chicago, the UCB Theatre in NY, iO Chicago, Austin City Limits, SF Sketch Fest and SXSW, and the 2016-2018 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringes. Her 2018 Improvised Play, Witches and Dogs, (directed by Craig Cackowski) was an audience favourite at The Dublin Fringe Festival. TV credits include Community, Drunk History, Party Legends and HarmonQuest for Seeso. She is a current ensemble member of Dreamgun Film Reads and the Artistic Director of MOB Theatre Dublin and can be seen in the 2023 film, Apocalypse Clown and SOULM8TE from Universal Pictures in 2025.
*SPACES LIMITED
** Students are granted free admission to all MOB shows for the duration of the course.
** We will refund tuition in full up until one-week before class starts due to limited space.
** Pay half of the tuition now to enrol, and the rest four weeks after the start of the course. Students are responsible for 2nd half of the payment regardless of participation in the course.
** We are committed to maintaining personal safety in the MOB classroom and at shows. Enrolled students are expected to sign and adhere to our Code of Conduct. We reserve the right to drop students from the course who violate our Code of Conduct without refund. MOB CODE OF CONDUCT
