Monday, July 7

Early Bird: Sketch Intensive

Sketch: We improvise, we write, we rehearse, we perform! Rinse and Repeat.

By Excused Absence Comedy for Youth

Date and time

July 7 · 12:30pm - July 11 · 4:30pm CDT. Doors at 6:30am

Location

ColdTowne Theater

1700 East 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 4 days 4 hours
Free venue parking

Ages 11 to 18

Monday, July 7 - Friday, July 11

A Sketch Writing and Performance Intensive for focused students attending Middle or High School (or the equivalent) in the Fall of 2025*.

Create, perform, and produce original sketch comedy using a combined Writer’s Room approach with Improvised characters and scenes. Designed for students willing to focus on collaborative creation and original comedy. Serious. Fun. Seriously fun. Performance on the final day. Held at ColdTowne Theater. $285

Serious. Fun. Seriously fun.

Students should bring a snack and water bottle. Break times may include outdoor time if the weather allows. Performance Friday, July 11 at 4:00. Early Bird Rate: $265. Beginning May 1: $295.

Organized by

Excused Absence Comedy for Youth

Excused Absence Comedy is the youth program at ColdTowne Theater. We offer improv, sketch and stand up training to kids and teens in Austin, Texas and beyond. Taught by some of Austin's best comics, our year round classes, house troupes, and camps invite a diverse group of young people to hone their comedy skills while benefitting from the social and emotional tools improv provides.

We produce two weekly, all ages shows year round. What's the Story Steve is a Saturday morning improv show, designed for for families and performed by a skilled, adult cast. Excused Absence Night is every Sunday at 5 and includes both youth and adult acts to allow youth to see both peers and pro's perform. The show ends in an improv jam, for those who wish to get up and give it a try!

Excused Absence Fest is a yearly all ages comedy festival that features two days of live performance and workshops. It's the only youth centered comedy festival in Texas!