Pick Your Next Project

UnCabaret is the original alt comedy show,it's intimate, conversational and funny. We produce shows and host events and workshops.Now in its 25th groundbreaking year, UnCabaret celebrated with a sold out show at CAP/UCLA at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on 11/18/18. Here'sVariety'sstory about it.Beth Lapides, creator, producer and host, invites the most original and vital voices in comedy to share the stories that are ripped from the headlines of their own lives.Each show is a one time only night orchestrated to uplift and inspire.UnCabarethas appeared onAmazon,Comedy Central,audible.comand on five critically acclaimed CD's. Our podcats, Life & Beth is available on iTunes. Much of our back catalogue is avaialbel on audible.com.UnCabaret has been featured in and on Comedy Central,  CNN, NY Times, LA Times, The LA Weekly, melmagazine, Entertainment Weekly, NPR'sThis American Life andAll Things Considered, The New York Times, Vanity Fair etc. As well as CNN’s History of Comedy, PBS’s 'Maker's: Women in Comedy' and"We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy".Spin off shows have included the critically acclaimed “Other Network Festival of UnAired Pilots” and “Say The Word”, TV writers reading stories of their own lives.WHOAmong our performers: Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, Sandra Bernhard, Kathy Griffin, Julia Sweeney, Tig Notaro, Julia Sweeney, Greg Behrendt, Taylor Negron, Jeff Garlin, Rob Delaney, Judd Apatow, Laura Kightlinger, Baron Vaughn, Jennifer Coolidge, Merrill Markoe, Maria Bamford, Alex Edelman, Roseanne Barr, Greg Proops, David Cross, Rick Overton, Eddie Pepitone, Rory Scovel, Jen Kirkman, Moshe Kasher, Michael Patrick King, Jen Kirkman, Sarah Silverman, Karen Kilgariff, Kira Soltanovich, Byron Bowers, Natasha Legerro, Moon Zappa, Cheri Oteri, Tim Bagley, Julie Goldman, John Riggi, Justin Sayre, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Randy and Jason Sklar, Ali Wong, Lauren Weedman, Carrie Fisher, Dave Holmes, Drew Droege, Dave Holmes, Erin Foley, Jackie Kashian, Alec Mapa, Paul F Tompkins, Del Shores, Aparna Nanchurla, Miss Coco Peru and so many more!Mitch Kaplan is our musical director and co-producer. Musical guests have included Phoebe Bridgers, Shelby Lynne, Lisa Loeb, Dweezil Zappa, Sam Morrow, Terra Naomi, Judith Owen, Jill Sobule, Zach Sherwin, Syd Straw, Ruby Friedman, Kelly Mantle, Allee Willis and Garfunkel and Oates.WHEREWe're currently in residency at Rockwell Table and Stage on Second Sundays. We've had extended residencies at LunaPark, HBO Workspace, Skirball Cultural Center, The Knitting Factory, First & Hope/AuLac. We've toured and done pop-ups at The Getty, The Los Angeles Public Library Main Branch, The Laugh Factory, The Great American Music Hall, Knitting Factory NY, CAP/UCLA at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Ace Palm Springs, Earlham College, Washington University and more.We are an incubator and many projects, including Julia Sweeney’s 'God Said, Ha!' have come out of our Sunday nights..EDUOur .edu branch has been in operation for over a dozen years and our workshop, 'Infinite Writing' runs in 6 week cycles once a season in Los Anegles currently a Actors Comedy Studio. Beth Lapides teaches both this, the one day seminar 'You But Funnier', and works as a private creativity coach with clients and corporations.Classes have been presented bySecond City Chicago,UCLA Extension, IOWest, The Skirball Cultural Center, mediabistro, Humber College for Comedy, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, LA Gay and Lesbian Center, PS 122, and Actors Comedy Studio.For more info onclassescheck this out.Come for the comedy, stay for the hugs.

UnCabaret

A life changing bootcamp to help with the single most important decision in your creative life. Which project to do next.

Hello big hearted and hungry creatives! Is your work at the level you want it to be? Are you...<ul><li>Facing a day job - or even in one and trying to get out? </li><li>Successful - but you know you need a new direction and aren&#x27;t sure what that is?</li><li>In a passionate puddle of mistakes - where there should be prolificness and profit?</li><li>Weighed down by abandoned projects?</li><li>Pulsing with the yearning to dig in - but overwhelmed by uncertainty about what exactly to dig in to?</li></ul>You are in a fork in the road moment and these are our greatest opportunity as creators. Every NYT bestseller, hit TV show, succesful stand up tour, groundbreaking album, amazing TED Talk began with a decision. You know that - which is part of what makes the choosing so difficult.Choosing your next project is the single most critical part of the creative process! It&#x27;s choosing the right project that is going to...<ul><li>Move your needle from stalled to success in record time!</li><li>FIll you with clarity and free you from confusion and fear!</li><li>Land you the gig, deal, award, respect - none of that happens without the right choice!</li><li>BONUS! The emotional stability!</li></ul>But first there&#x27;s that pile of papers! It&#x27;s laughing at you! You know somewhere in there is the key to your future... but... how can you choose?I feel your pain. I’ve been there... onstage with too many notes. Up all night spinning about the perfect project for me, knowing it was out there but not sure how to find it. In one of the moments I created my legendary show, UnCabaret. I tell that story in my new critically acclaimed original audio book So You Need To Decide. Which was made using all the techniques I&#x27;m going to help you with. And teach you so you can use for the rest of your creative life!Together we&#x27;re going to amplify and optimize your creativity for a more prolific, profitable and profound creative life - through this very specific skill: picking your best next project.Picking your project isn&#x27;t just career changing, it&#x27;s also life changing. They are connected.Without picking the right project nothing can change:( and although change is hard - you might have finally gotten to the point where not changing is harder.Sometimes that picking your next project looks like choosing a medium...<ul><li>film or TV</li><li>book or podcast</li><li>storytelling or stand up</li><li>memoir or fiction</li></ul>And sometimes it looks like figuring out who you really are so you know what&#x27;s right for you. Digging into the stories that make you you. The right project for you is usually something no one else could do. Launch or flop it all depends on the initial decision. Pick Your Next Project isn’t random choice of a project for me. It&#x27;s one of the key things I teach in my workshops. And the one thing I&#x27;ve seen make all the difference time and time again..You don&#x27;t have to do it alone.Give me a weekeknd and I&#x27;ll give you the project that will move you into the next phase, next level of your career. And the skill set to do that again and again. You&#x27;ll get...<ul><li>Clarity, and the momentum that clarity gives you.</li><li>A toolkit for making better decisions about your work moving forward.</li><li>Wisdom about what criteria to use when you choose, criteria I’ve spent decades identifying. </li><li>You’ll learn exponentially through the group.</li></ul>Friday 5-7 PT, Saturday 11-1 PT 2-4 PT, Sunday 11-1 PTLimited to 10 participants so sign up now.And if you&#x27;d like to book a call to make sure this is righ for you, <a href="https://www.bethlapides.com/bookacallwithbeth" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">get on Beth&#x27;s calendar here.</a> More about Beth... &quot;I started helping folks pick their projects when the now very successful writer/director/producer Jessica Bendinger came to me at the end of her rope. She was stalled out and knew she had to do something big and different. She had three ideas for movies. And she pitched them to me over lunch. As we were finishing the last croutons in our Caesar salads I told her - do the cheerleading one. That&#x27;s the script that turned into the phenom Bring It On. And that&#x27;s the lunch that gave me the idea that this skill I had developed might be useful to other people.&quot;Beth&#x27;s best known as the creator and host of <a href="http://www.uncabaret.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UnCabaret</a> which is widely recognized as the leader in the comedy revolution and the Los Angeles Times called her &#x27;the godmother of alternative comedy&#x27;. Variety recenty called UnCabaret &#x27;a progressive comedy institution&#x27;. She&#x27;s hosted and produced UnCabaret for over 25 years including live and as a series on Amazon, a special for Comedy Central and a library on audible. Plus her two shows on Comedy World Radio, 4 critically acclaimed CD&#x27;s. UnCabaret has had long running residencies at venues including LunaPark, HBO Workspace, The Knitting Factory, The Skirball Cultural Center and more. And toured to the HBO Comedy Arts Festival and colleges and performing arts centers nationally. Currently UnCabaret has both Zoom Editions as well as live shows.Beth has been featured on Comedy Central, CNN&#x27;s History of Comedy, on Sex &amp; The City, NPR&#x27;s All Thing&#x27;s Considered and many others. She&#x27;s been publsihed in The Los Angeles Times, A Weekly, Elle Decor, O Magazine, LA Yoga, and many others.She&#x27;s toured her one woman shows internationally and received NEA&#x27;s for that work. Her visual work was exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art&#x27;s Library among others. Beth has a BA from Brown University in Modes of Expression.Beth&#x27;s a master teacher and has been steering creatives through careers in stand up, memoir, script writing, storytelling, one person shows and more. Her workshops have long been a hot bed of creativity. She&#x27;s taught and lectured about comedy, writing and creativity independently and at schools and institutions like UCLA Extension, Second City, IOWest, Skirball Cultural Center, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Actors Comedy Studio, mediabistro.com, Brown University, CSUN, SMoCA etc.

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