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Creating and Producing Your Own Solo Show

There has never been a better time to create your own performing opportunities by creating and producing your own solo show. Learn how to take your own story and turn it into a hit show. Learn it from someone who is not just teaching but actually doing it!

FEE: $350 for 7 classes plus performance night. $50 DISCOUNT for enrollment before July 15th.

CLASSES LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS
Class will be held at instructor's home in Noe Valley. Easy access from 24 & J Church Muni lines. Street parking not difficult.

This class is taught by JAMES JUDD, the writer/producer of 7 SINS, one of San Francisco's most successful solo shows. This is the right class for you if you are:

- an actor ready to lift your career to the next level
- a stand-up comic ready to transition from clubs to theaters
- a writer ready to build a wider audience
- an executive ready to advance by improving your public presentations
- anybody with a story to tell who desires to move it from an idea to a curtain call

DATES: Sundays 3-6pm August 9th - October 4th (no classes August 30th or September 4th.) You will be writing and performing in every class. Public performance night included in the class!

COURSE:
- Breaking through your writing blocks
- Strategies for finishing what you start
- Effective self-producing (You CAN make money!)
- Building an audience
- Be your own best publicist
- How to create an advertising campaign
- Budgeting and accounting
- Legal issues for the solo performer
- Negotiating with theater owners
- Hiring your crew
- Taking your show on the road
- Keep it going after the run

TEACHER: James Judd is the writer/producer of 7 SINS, which began as a group show at Venue 9 in 2002. As a solo show it has been produced at local, regional, and international theater festivals, including The Edinburgh Festival and the East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59th Theatres (Off B'Way). At fringe festivals across North America, including Montreal, Hamilton, London, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Washington D.C., and Orlando it received numerous Best of Fringe and Audience Favorite accolades, as well as an award for Best International Production. In 2009 7 SINS will be presented in Massachusetts, Rehoboth Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle's Solo Performances Festival (filmed for television) and as part of the Atlantis Events cruise vacations. His new show James Judd's WHOOP CLICK! will be presented at the Dark Room Theater on Saturday nights at 8pm July 11-August 22. He has recently been seen and heard promoting his show on San Francisco's local TODAY show affiliate and NPR-affiliates KAWL Out in the Bay Radio program and NPR Cape and the Islands Morning Edition. He is a former member of the Groundlings Theater and the New Faces of the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles. He has performed in the San Francisco Comedy Competition, Star Search, Evening at the Improv. His other plays include FAT CAMP, ALEC BALDWIN'S UNDERWEAR, and WHOOP CLICK! He holds a Master of Professional Writing Degree with an emphasis in Playwrighting from the University of Southern California, Master of Intellectual Property, and Juris Doctorate. He is a licensed but non-practicing attorney.

Critics on James Judd:

"Who is this guy and why am I laughing so hard?" San Francisco Weekly

"It was dirty, it was silly, it was a swell party. Bravo, James Judd!" San Francisco Chronicle

"He's Oscar Wilde in the land of Starbucks" Chortle, UK Comedy Guide

"He's David Sedaris on a pot of coffee" Democrat & Chronicle

"Hilarious and engaging" Bay Area Reporter

"His amusing, over-the-top style leaves 'em laughing," San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Vibrant and funny" San Francisco Examiner

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517 29th Street
San Francisco, CA 94131
United States

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On BPT Since: Nov 19, 2008

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