Plays Extremely Well With Others
I had a chance to catch up on my reading (and my Gilmore Girls) over the holidays and finished Les McGehee’s book Plays Well With Others, which is apparently the first in a trilogy. The…
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.)
Graduation
This Sunday nine of my students graduated from The Heroes School of Improvisational Theatre. We had a blast. The house was packed. The graduates were pumped. The show went swimmingly. I hate to jinx it,…
New Improv Book
My friend Les McGehee has just published his first book on improvisation, Plays Well With Others. I’ve already ordered my copy and I can’t wait to tear in to it. For more info about the…
Parenting, Positivity, and the Education Gap
I’m still in the middle of reading this feature article What It Takes To Make a Student By PAUL TOUGH in the NY Times Sunday Magazine. It has some amazing research about where the achievement…
And the Winner Is . . .
I just got back from the AIC Awards Banquet and I’m happy to say that I won two awards: Best Improv Teacher Best Improv Workshop(Improvised Singing) I’m so happy and honored to get these awards.…
And the Nominees Are . . .
Well, I guess it’s just awards season. The Austin Improv Collective announced the nominees for the first annual AIC Awards, and I’m really excited and honored to get several nominations personally and for Girls Girls…
Applied Improv Research
On Saturday I met with Adam Blatner, who is researching a book about applied drama and applied improvisation. It covers a broad amount of topics, such as drama therapy, Theatre In Education, Drama in Business,…