Crafting Characters

This workshop is limited to 12 students.

Crafting Characters is the workshop for any comedian looking to hone their comedic character skills. Want to create a set for an SNL or JFL audition? Working on a solo show? Wanna post your character videos on TikTok and the rest? This workshop will teach you the skills needed to make your characters pop for both live performance and filmed content.

This class will culminate in a performance at the BCC Pig Pen.

Prerequisite: Completion of BCC Level 1 Sketch or Level 1 Improv. We will also accept students who have taken at least one full-length Sketch/Improv course at a major comedy theater (UCB, PIT, Magnet, Squirrel, Second City, iO, Annoyance, etc.) or have similar prior training or performance experience can begin at this level. Please write your prior experience in the form when registering.

5-Week Class: Tuesdays, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, October 28th - December 2nd

• Note: Class may end between 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM depending on the number of enrollments.

• This class will skip Tuesday, November 25th in observance of Thanksgiving.

Where: The BCC Pig Pen, Studio A (130 Graham Ave)

Class Show: Wednesday. December 3rd. 2025. Eris Deep Space (167 Graham Ave). 8:30 PM

Teacher: Jamie Linn Watson

Bio:

Jamie Linn Watson is an actress and comedian who frequently performs at the BCC. She received a BFA in acting from NYU Tisch (aka the hospital where Anne Hathaway was born) and has since worked professionally in commercials (Sprint), TV (What We Do In The Shadows), and film (Please Don't Destroy: Treasure of Foggy Mountain). She's taught comedy classes at Long Island University and Columbia. You can catch her as part of UCB's Betty Team, Heyday, with improv team, A Crazy Amazing Friendship, or sketch group, LISA. Jamie is great at generating and rehearsing character sets, creating online content, and making dips! You can find her on tiktok and instagram as jamie.linn.watson.

Testimonials:

Jamie is really great at creating a super supportive and structured environment. I felt really challenged doing this kind of work, but I also felt truly supported throughout the entire process. Jamie wants us to succeed and that’s what makes her a strong teacher. Students rise to their teacher’s expectations and Jamie had high, but realistic, expectations for us and I think we all did fantastic work because of it.

If this class is sold out, sign-up for the wait list here.