Learn the basics of standup comedy in this six-week class taught by professional comics. The class ends with a graduation show where you’ll deliver a five-minute comedy set to a public audience. Our 600+ graduates have gone on to perform on some of the world’s biggest stages, including Warner Theater, Gotham Comedy Club, and The White House.
This six-week class will meet on Sundays: March 17, 24, April 7, 14, 21, and 28. (Skip March 31). Each session is 3 hours. This class has a graduation show on Saturday, May 5th where participants will perform for an audience of friends, family, and the community.
About the Instructors
Dewayne White is a DC-based standup comedian and a combat-wounded Army veteran who served in the Army for 23 years. He has worked alongside amazing comedians like Josh Blue, Sal Vulcano, Mark Normand, Tony Woods and many others. Dewayne was selected as Best of the Fest at the 2022 Plano Comedy festival, 2021’s Magooby’s Joke House Comedian of the Year, and a finalist in 2019’s “Last DC Comic Standing.” Read more here.
Demi Chang got her start (in life and comedy) in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. She is a Marine Corps veteran and ASAP Comedy Bootcamp graduate and instructor. She has performed at the DC Improv, The Comedy Chateau, and Vulcan Gas Company in Austin, TX as featured on the Kill Tony podcast and The Secret Show. Find her on social media @TheDemiChang.
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