WHY YOU’RE STRUGGLING WITH SILENT IMPROV IS THE WHY
Think about those three dots that you see in text chains. You often do. They blink for a mercilessly long time on occasion and your brain wants to fill that space. We can’t help it.…
Merlin Works Code of Conduct
Solo performance arts such as Storytelling and Stand-Up rely on feedback and collaboration in class. Improv is a collaborative art form, and the best improv happens when everybody involved feels comfortable, supported, and welcomed. At…
Can You Emotionally Prepare for Something? The Merlin Works Newsletter October 2021
Eighteen-plus months in to the pandemic and I still get that feeling of shock when I tune in to NPR first thing in the morning and hear a newscaster say something like “today marks 700,000…
Moving Improv Back Indoors
I’ve been coaching an Austin Improv troupe weekly. I absolutely love getting to do this with them. We started last year on Zoom and this summer when Austin’s COVID Stage dropped to Level 2, we…
Merlin Works Postpones In-Person Classes – No Film at 11
This is hard. This wave pulled the rug out from under our well-planned life. All of us. So we’re going to postpone the start of classes until October in hopes that the current wave will…
Merlin Works Newsletter: Curiosity Kills Fear
This year when we tried to get my 9-year-old son to eat a green bean, he threw up. Right there at the dinner table. To say he’s a picky eater is not just an understatement,…
Covid Safety Protocols
We’re back! Hooray? I know. Right now is a very different reality from when we started planning our re-opening a few months ago in June. And even though this is not exactly the public…