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- Comedy Show March 20 - 7:30 pm (click on tab to the right)
- New Comedy - Reading "When CARPs Attack" April 30 - 7:30 pm
   Both at the Randolph Road Theater - Reservations 301-381-5212


YOU THINK WE’RE KIDDING?

A Sketch Comedy Perpetration

Consisting Of Thirteen Acts of Ridicule

   

comedy sketches by writers

Diego Aguilar, Harry M. Bagdasian, Liam Brennan,

Molly Brennan, Lisa Levin Itté, John Kilmer and Josh Rosen

DIRECTED BY Harry M. Bagdasian

FEATURING: Conor Brennan, Liam Brennan, Sasha Brown, Anne Chernikoff,
James Finley, Miriam Finley, Jeffrey Hacker, Toby Henley, Nicholas Lingenfelter, Jeanette Moser, Brian Paton, Jonathan Rabinovich, Jeffrey Rosen, Amanda Ross, Maura Russell, Erica Shortall,

Alexandra Turpie, Peter Walderhaug and Maxwell Warsaw

 

To Raise Money for The Comedy Academy, Inc.

And support its Comedy Workshop Programs In The Schools

One Night Only! 7:30PM

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Randolph Road Theatre (formerly The Round House Theatre)

4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, MD 20902

Doors open for general seating at 7:00 PM

For More Information Call The Comedy Academy, Inc. 301-681-5212


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A Comedy Workshop at Northwood High School

The Comedy Academy, Inc. will continue it’s after school program at Northwood High School beginning in October 2011 thru March, 2012, 2011.  Students will have the opportunity to work with a professional writer/director in exploring comedy writing and performance.  Original scripts will be developed, students will participate in comedy improvisation and sketch comedy script development.  When available, additional theatre professionals will attend and offer their professional guidance to students in the workshop.

 

All students participating in the Comedy Workshop at Northwood High School will be eligible to participate in The Comedy Academy’s presentations at area theatres and in the Capital Fringe Festival in downtown Washington, DC (Fringe 2012 if we’re accepted)

 

Meetings will take place at Northwood High School on Tuesday afternoons

 

A Comedy Workshop at NHS Meeting Dates

2:15 to 4:00 pm Tuesday afternoons

October 18, 25 / November 1, 8, 15, 29 / December 6, 13, 20

January 10, 17, 24 / February 7, 21,28 / March 13, 20, 27

 


2nd Student-Written Comedy Sketch Anthology

NOW AVAILABLE!

 

The Comedy Academy, Inc. is pleased to announce that Meriwether Publishing LTD/Contemporary Drama Services, one of the country’s primary sources of scripts for middle and high schools drama programs, has recently published a new anthology of comedy material - HELL'S LIBRARY and fifteen more TV parody sketches written by students for students.  The title sketch was written by Leah and Rachel Solomon and was most recently performed in The Capital Fringe Festival as part of The Comedy Academy, Inc.’s Fringe entry FRESH FROM THE FUNNY FARM – local Laughs performed at the Warehouse in July, 2010.  The sketch features five wannabe librarians tasked with challenges by “the dreaded librarian, Ramsey.”

 

 

(pictured L to R) Diego Aguilar, Peter Walderhaug and Rachel Solomon in "Hells Library" by Leah and Rachel Solomon in The Comedy Academy, Inc.'s "Fresh From The Funny Farm - local laughs" at The Warehouse in Washington, DC as part of The Capital Fringe Festival, July 2010

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Students from The Comedy Academy, Inc. programs at Northwood High School and Lee Middle School have created many comedy sketches over the past several years.  This new anthology includes 16 TV parody sketches by Liam Brennan (NHS Class of 2012), Josh Rosen (NHS 2010,) Leah Solomon (NHS 2010,), Rachel Solomon (JFK Class of 2007,) Sara Mozersky (NHS 2010,) Peter Walderhaug (NHS 2012,) John Kilmer (NHS 2010) and Jennie Bagdasian (Good Counsel 2006.) 

For More Details  – Click on “We’re Published”

 


ALSO NOW IN PRINT ... AMERICA’S NEXT TOP (BOY) MODEL


A collection of 22 TV parody and comedy sketches by Lee Comedy Club Alumni Rachel Solomon, Leah Solomon and Sara Mozersky are also available to schools and youth groups around the world.  Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Contemporary Drama Service, renowned publisher of plays and musicals for school and youth group productions published their collected work under the title “ America’s Next Top (boy) Model and Other Comic Sketches” in 2008.  This is the first collection published that is written entirely by students according to Ted Zapel, Vice President of the publishing company.


Comedy Writers Leah Solomon, Sara Mozersky & Rachel Solomon

Comedy sketches included in the collection are " America's Next Top (boy) Model", "Comedy Club Idol", "Why Can't You Be More Like Your Sister?", "LOST", " Battle of the Blondes", "Rude Cell Phone Guy - At The Movies", "Model Mania", “Ambush Makeover", and more.  These twenty-two sketches were written for and first performed by the Lee Comedy Club, the popular after school program at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Wheaton, Maryland.  All of this material was written while Rachel, Leah and Sara were students at Lee and members of the Lee Comedy Club, or later when the girls were in high school and were volunteer assistants with the program at Lee Middle.

 

Rachel is now a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Leah Solomon is now a sophomore at Northeastern University and Sara Mozersky is a sophomore at Rutgers University.  
   

Scripts generated by members and leaders of the Lee Comedy Club are performed around the world when published by Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Contemporary Drama Services. Twelve collections of comic material are currently in print and have been leased from the publisher over 3,500 times by schools and youth groups in every state of the US, throughout Canada and in Germany, Australia, Malaysia, Portugal, Guam, United Arab Emerates and Singapore. 

  
"Battle of the Blondes" in rehearsal

 

 

To purchase copies or inquire about performance rights, contact Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Contemporary Drama Service at www.contemporarydrama.com.

 
"Comedy Club Idol" in rehearsal

 

 

 

 


THE COMEDY ACADEMY, INC., a non-profit organization, strives to give artistic voice to young people through writing and performing original sketch comedy material under the direction of theater professionals.  Encouraging teens to use comedy to explore contemporary issues relevant to their lives and to examine the humor in life situations and experiences is TCA’s aim.  The students often draw from their own experiences thus giving their comedy a unique perspective.   Over TCA’s 17-year history, more than 500 middle school, high school, and college age students have been involved in its workshops and performances. 

The most unique aspect of the Comedy Academy is the worldwide accessibility of Comedy Academy sketch material.  The finished scripts from every TCA presentation has been published, wholly or in part, by Contemporary Drama Services (a division of Meriwether Publishing LTD).  Through their distribution network, this original comedy material is available to schools and youth groups around the world.  Since the first publication in 1996, almost 50,000 books have been sold.  To date, CDS has leased the rights to Comedy Academy material to over 4,000 schools and venues in every state in the U.S., throughout Canada, and in Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Guam, and the United Arab Emirates.  That these humorous sketches, written by local teens about contemporary issues in their lives, can translate across cultural boundaries and national borders speaks to the universality of the coming-of-age years in many regions and countries.

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