The Ongoing Performing Group meets every Wednesday night at the Santa Monica Playhouse ON ZOOM.  This is a subscription-based program. You’ll be automatically billed every 4 weeks.  This group is an open enrollment group, meaning you can start at any time.  Your 4-week auto payment renewal date will be based upon your start date.

Prerequisites:

You must have completed either (or both) of Greg Dean’s Stand Up Comedy Classes: Building Routines, or Advanced Joke Writing & Performing.

Join Greg every Wednesday night to work on your stand up comedy performance skills. Work out the bugs, manage and master stage fright. Learn how to read the audience and work with them to get every last laugh you can! Get feedback from fellow comedians, and get personal one-on-one time with Greg!

You’ll Build These Skills

• Defining & Mastering a joke premise
• Pulling the Audience into Your Comedy “Movie”
• Being Yourself on Stage
• Reading & Interacting with the Audience in Front of You
• Tags & Tag timing
• What to Do When You Go Blank
• and so much more!

Skills You Can Work On

• Perform Routine
• Story to Routine
• Rehearsal on Request
• Solo Improv
• With Previous Training
• Crowd Work
• MC Training
• Roasting

Group Schedule & Location

• Every Wednesday Night – Open Enrollment – Start at any Time
• From 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Pacific Time – each group session is 3 hours long
• In-Person at the Santa Monica Playhouse – 1211 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401 VENUE CHANGE TO ZOOM

Instructor

Greg Dean, the Professor of Stand Up Comedy. Author of the international bestseller, Step-by-Step to Stand Up Comedy, now sold in six different languages. Creator of the original Joke Structure technique. Greg Dean has been teaching stand up comedy for over 40 years and is a true innovator in the field of stand-up comedy education, having launched the first stand up comedy school in the world.

Subscription Membership

This subscription-based program is automatically charged to your card every 4 weeks from your start date.  If you miss a week, there is no credit given or make up classes. You are buying your spot in the group, whether or not you attend.

Note: You can cancel at any time, however since we have people waiting to join, if you can give us a week’s notice then we can notify the next person on the wait list in time for them to get registered. If you want to join in the future, put your name on the waiting list.