This class is limited to 10 students.

This class will teach you the fundamentals of writing a standard 3-Act comedy pilot with heavy emphasis on structure and craft: act breaks, scene transitions, plot lines, and everything in between. Students should expect a challenging workload with lots of reading, writing, and analyzing. Over the course of 7-weeks, via a roundtable workshop structure, we will develop your idea from conception to a fully-fledged, presentable pilot.

Homework: bring a few pilot ideas/premises to pitch along with examples of television pilots you enjoy to the first class. Note that there will be significant amounts of writing and reading other students’ work that will be expected in-between each class.

7-Week Class: Sundays, 6:00PM - 9:00 PM, March 2nd - April 13th. 2025

• Note: Class may end between 8:30 - 9:00 PM depending on the number of enrollments.

• This class does not end In a class show.

Where: The BCC Doghouse, Studio #1 (137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn)

Teacher: Jose Acevedo

Bio:

Jose Acevedo is a writer, director and producer from the west side of Chicago. Most recently, he was an executive producer on Everything’s Trash for Freeform.  His short film Eagle screened at festivals all over the country and won the Vimeo Award at the Urbanworld festival.

Previously, he served as Head of Development at Tiny Reparations, Phoebe Robinson’s production company. Before that, he was a Director of Development at Comedy Central where he developed the shows Alternatino, The President Show and Ronny Chieng: International Student, to name a few.  He currently lives in Brooklyn.

Testimonials:

Jose brought the perfect blending of actionable feedback, industry standards and creative exploration. It was an open forum to talk and build and create. Jose gave everyone the necessary attention and gave detailed notes at every step of the way. I felt challenged but comfortable every week and pushed myself in such a positive direction.

Jose is a phenomenal teacher. His lessons were directly applicable to everything we were doing, his notes were super coherent and actionable, and he made the class an incredibly comfortable and creative environment.

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