Pre-Show Warmups for LongForm Improv
My friend and improv guru William Hall and I were emailing about how we warm up for narrative longform shows. I ended up writing him a long email describing the warmups for Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica. And…
Press for Dusk in New York City
We got a few cool writeups for our New York City leg of the Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica 2010 National Tour. I had an interview with The New York Press: New Yorkers should be sharpening…
All Three of My Projects Written Up in the Austin Chronicle
Here is a great article in the arts section of the Chronicle today. It focuses on all the awesome Austin improv troupes that have been touring around this year. Happily, it mentions all three of…
Zen and The Art of Improv
My Improv 201 student, Rupesh, just opened his new Chinese Medicine Studio, Windhorse Medicine. He wrote a lovely article about the parallels of improv and Zen meditation on his new website. Here’s an excerpt Black mats.…
LAFF Starts Today!
Today is the start of the 4th Annual LAFF: Ladies Are Funny Festival! We’ve been getting all sorts of good press. In the Statesman on May 4th: LAFF Spreads: 4th Year Even Bigger by Katy Ballard…
The First Official Merlin Works Gnap! Soccer Game
We had so much fun at the soccer match on Sunday. We had a great turnout of soccer players and cheerleaders, as well as boys building forts nearby. People were way more hard core than…
Chicago Improv Festival Wrap Up: Day 4
On our last day in Chicago, we had breakfast at Yolk went to the Field Museum of Natural History, saw the most complete T-Rex skeleton in the world, Kyle got a tiny dinosaur that we…