Graduation Show Last Night
I directed the graduation show for the Level 3 class at the Hideout last night. The group did a great job. They were playful, listened well, took risks, and had fun. They were so sweet…
Category: School News
This is hard. This wave of the Delta Variant pulled the rug out from under our well planned life. All of us. So we are going to postpone the start of classes until October in hopes that the current wave will have slipped back to Stage 3 or or better, 2.
So let’s start again.
This October, Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation will have a range of In-Person classes for you to attend. We’ll have Improv, Musical Improv, Stand Up , Storytelling, and some Master Classes with our good friend, Asaf Ronen. Plus we have a venue for shows! Stuff is happening In-Person in October at Merlin-Works.
Please stay safe. Get vaccinated if you can. Wear a mask to stop the spread and then come join us in October.
Also, we would like all our friends to please place their tongues between their lips and gently blow. Because that best expresses how we at Merlin Works feel today. (See Shana’s Instagram Post for more on this.)
Sir Ian McKellen Explains Acting
This is so brilliant, I don’t even know what to say. I’ve watched it about 6 times so far. Ricky Gervais’s character, Andy Milman, in hopes of bringing some credibility to his acting career, comes…
Putting Some Fun Back Into 9 to 5
These articles keep coming, more and more. And I just see them in the NYtimes. Who knows where they are in other publications. This article is about all the research pointing to the benefits of…
Merlin Works In the Austinist
I just got a great write up from Eric Seufert in the Austinist. Go ahead and click through to the article and recommend it. Or make a comment! March 5, 2008 The Merlin Works Institute…
The Best Movies Are Meant to Be Memorized
There is something about improv in this article, but I don’t know what it is exactly. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02wwln-medium-t.html?ex=1362027600&en=364a6d295a1964d6&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Something about movies before VHS, when you would see them only once or at least only in the…
Applied Improv in the New York Times
My friends Gary Hirsch and Patricia Ryan Madsen from The Applied Improv Network are featured in an article in the Sunday New York Times Business Section about the value of Improv Training for Businesses. Can…
Letter to the Chronicle Editor Published
Date Received: Sun., Feb. 24, 11:27AM IMPROV THANKS Dear Editor, I wanted to thank Avimaan Syam, Robert Faires, and The Austin Chronicle for the excellent piece on the grand opening of the Merlin Works Institute…