These are two different 1-day workshops with Anthony LeBlanc!
Comedic Acting Class For Teens
Saturday February 22nd 2025, 12 - 3 PM
This workshop is intended for teens that consider themselves working actors or want to be working actors and is open to any level of teen that is actively participating in performing on stage or screen at any level (even if it is the school play or making content for online on a regular basis).
Comedy gets its power from observing and then commenting on the world around us. As comedic actors, we gain our power by learning how to display that commentary through the characters we bring to life, the words we say, and how we say them. Once we start to understand what makes something funny and why people laugh at it…we can become true masters of the Stage and Screen (even one attached to a keyboard).
This Workshop uses Improv, Acting, Scene Study, and a dash of Comedic Writing and Structure to help the actors learn to take any comedic material and bring it to life.
Workshop Objectives
Learning how jokes are structured and how to understand how they work truly
Understanding how improv can be a powerful tool for connecting with your cast-mates and characters, working with acting notes, and being prepared when changes are thrown your way.
Learn how to break down a script and understand the jokes, characters, themes, story, and overall structure.
Learning to play all of the different levels of scenes and their characters
Improving acting preparation and skills needed to work on a set
Comedic Directing Workshop for Adults
Sunday February 23rd 2025, 11 - 5 PM
This will be a crash course that will cover many different aspects of directing comedy, including Improv, sketch, and on-camera.
Anthony will share insights and exercises that will be helpful for those starting their directing career and those who have been doing it for a while but want to continue honing their craft.
This fast-paced workshop is tailored to give you hands-on exercises and opportunities to explore, discuss, and get guidance on the directing challenges that have come up for you, getting you ready to tackle your next projects.
BIO
Anthony LeBlanc works at Nickelodeon/Paramount doing talent development and as an on-set acting coach on many hit shows such as The Reboot of All That, The Really Loud House, and Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan. He acted as Interim Executive Producer of The Second City in 2020. Previously, LeBlanc served as an Artistic Director for The Second City Inc. and was a part-time faculty member at Columbia College Chicago in the Comedy Studies Program.
Anthony is a Second City alum who wrote and performed in two original Chicago Mainstage revues, Taming of the Flu and the Jeff Award-nominated America: All Better!. He has been a teacher and resident director for Second City, directing several resident stage and theatrical productions in Chicago and Washington, D.C., including The Winner ... of Our Discontent (Chicago Mainstage), Soul Brother, Where Art Thou? (The Second City e.t.c.), Generation Gap at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Helen Hayes-nominated Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains) at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. And Independently including The Magic Negro and Other Blackity Blackness as Told by an African-American Man Who Also Happens to be Black at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.
A native of Beaumont, Texas, Anthony holds a degree in Computer Science and Physics from Loyola University New Orleans.
Anthony is an autistic Blerd dedicated to promoting Neurodiversity and DEI in comedy.