UCLA
Sit Com Writing & Producing
| Session1 | July 10 - July 22, 2011 |
| Grades | 11 through Age 20 |
| Tuition | $2500 |
| Audition | No Audition Required |
Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010
Camp/Workshop Details
Program Directors: Conchata Ferrell, Jeff SteinWhat do Will and Grace, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Girlfriends, and Joey, all have in common? You guessed it! They are all situation comedies - and the UCLA Arts Camp offers the only Sitcom Camp in the country.
Write and Produce a situation comedy under the guiding eye of two seasoned professionals. The two week long camp is patterned after the real life experiences of a creative sitcom team of people who must deliver a situation comedy to the network executives. The writer/producers will spend their time pitching story ideas, writing conferences, casting sessions, staging, and a camera shoot of the project in a television studio. Studio guests and a visit to a sitcom are planned. This highly successful camp is the only one of its kind anywhere and is unique to the UCLA Arts Camp.
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You can earn 3 college credits for this program.
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* Additional Camp/Workshop InformationStudents check-in between 1pm and 2:30pm on the first day of camp. Flights should arrive into Los Angeles International (LAX) on the first day of camp between 10am and 12pm. Flights should depart from Los Angeles International (LAX) on the day after camp ends (Saturday) between 9am and 12pm. Transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International(LAX) for $30 each way + Additional $125 for overnight stay. |
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Directors and Faculty
Conchata Ferrell
Workshop Head
Conchata Ferrell joins the 2009 faculty of our summer program as the head of our Sitcom Acting workshop.
A brilliant actress Conchata made her theatrical debut in the New York Off-Broadway scene in the 1970s. She is a founding member of New York's Circle Repertory Theater, and has performed in such productions as Picnic and The Sea Horse , a performance which earned her a Drama Desk Award, an OBIE and the Theater World Award for the Most Promising Newcomer. Conchata was in the original cast of Lanford Wilson's Hot L Baltimore , the award-winning Off-Broadway production which legendary producer Norman Lear later produced as a series for ABC-TV with her recreating her starring role. This led to a succession of roles in numerous TV-movies, many theatrical films, several TV series and countless guest spots.
She appeared in Sidney Lumet's Network and was the lead opposite Rip Torn in Richard Pearce's small-scale, beautifully acted gem about rural life, Heartland . Movie fans will also remember her appearing opposite then newcomer Julia Roberts in the ensemble comedy romance Mystic Pizza . A superb actress Conchata appeared in Edward Scissorhands , True Romance , Heaven and Earth , My Fellow Americans , Touch Erin Brockovich , Crime + Punishment in Suburbia , K-Pax , Mr. Deeds and the wonderful mockumentary Surviving Eden working with such directors as Oliver Stone, Sydney Lumet and Tim Burton. Her television credits are many including the Stranger Inside and Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle.
Conchata appeared in the highly successful BBC miniseries The Buccaneers . Among Cochata's many spots as a TV primetime series regular are roles on the popular seriocomic road adventure B.J and the Bear and L.A. Law , for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. She was in the series Hearts Afire for CBS, the ABC sitcoms Townies and Teen Angel . Conchata Ferrell was a guest star on several popular television series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Touched by an Angel, JAG, Friends, Popular, ER, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Becker and Judging Amy, and she appeared on the short-lived drama Push Nevada . And of course for the past five years she plays the role of Berta, Charlie Sheen's sardonic housekeeper on the Emmy winning sitcom Two and a Half Men.
Jeff Stein
Workshop Head
Emmy Winner Jeff Stein is leading the UCLA ARTS CAMP workshop in Sitcom Writing and Producing in 2010. Producer of the classic hit television series "Barney Miller" Jeff brings his own unique writing and producing skills to our students in this workshop. He was the co creator, writer and executive producer of the well remembered series "Mr. Belvedere" which won an Emmy during its reign as a hit comedy series. Jeff co-created and co-executive produced the TV series "Sister Kate" was the executive producer/ writer on the series "Babes" and has written episodes for many television sitcoms including "Night Court" " Ned and Stacy" and the ever popular "King of Queens". A man who is well known at all four networks he has written or co-written over a dozen TV pilots for all four of them. In fact one year, he had a pilot going at all four. Jeff Stein does not limit his writing/producing to television sitcoms. He was one of the writers (albeit uncredited) on the hit motion picture "Roger Rabbit" "My Favorite Martian" and "American Tail II" He currently has two films in pre-production ("Harpers Fairy" and "Honey Pig") and has written the romantic comedy "The Perfect Holiday". Jeff Stein has also taught at several colleges and universities and now in 2010, he joins Conchatta Ferrell (Two and Half Men) in leading the 2010 Sitcom Workshop.
Location Information
UCLA is one of America's most prestigious universities, and their theater department is rated number one in North America. Bordered on the north by protected wilderness and on the south by Westwood Village, UCLA has long been known as an entertainment magnet for the entire Los Angeles area. Selected for their artistic and professional achievements, UCLA 's exceptional faculty from the School of Theater, Film and Television lead these inspiring workshops.
The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is the only university in the country where the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.
The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media offers a wide range of courses for undergraduates in the study of three areas of moving images: Critical Studies, including the history, theory and aesthetics of both film and television; Production/Directing, including film, television (studio and field), digital, experimental and animation; and the film and television disciplines, including writing, producing, cinematography, sound recording and editing.
At the graduate level, there are five areas of concentration: Critical Studies, which offers film and television history and theory; aesthetics and popular culture, films from diverse genres and extensive national cinemas; Production/Directing, which trains students in all aspects of directing narrative fiction, documentaries and/or experimental film, emphasizing the aesthetic components; Screenwriting, in which the elements of character, dialogue, story and tone are explored; Animation, in which students are trained to create an individual style and voice; and the Producers Program, in which students learn the business and art of making films and television programs.
At UCLA's Department of Theater, we believe that great theater programs must prepare and train students for careers in all contemporary and emerging entertainment forms -- including live theater, film, television, video, themed entertainment, interactive gaming, and more. Our students live in a world that is interactive, collaborative, and fueled by their passion for our art form -- one that encompasses the many forms of professional practice as well as the theoretical exploration of current and emerging entertainment forms.
Igniting our students' talent and passion to achieve success is our goal. That is why students work with a distinguished faculty composed of professional and creative artists who have excelled in their fields. UCLA Theater has some of the most distinguished faculty and visiting artists in the world, among them Mel Shapiro, Annette Bening, Anthony Hopkins, Larry Moss, Neil Jampolis, Deborah Scott and Jerry Katzman. With this professional training, students are following in the footsteps of such illustrious alumni as Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Robbins, James Dean, Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and many others.
TFT's extraordinary undergraduate and graduate students are drawn from an admissions pool of the finest students from around the world, and enjoy participation in small classes with faculty members who themselves are accomplished artists and industry leaders.
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