Girls Gone Wild: DT Weekend
The Girls are in the cover story of the Daily Texan Weekend section promoting our new run of shows, The Boys of Summer. The photos are awesome and the article explores the different style and…
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.)
XL Funnywriters Fest–Cover Story
I ended this month performing in the sketch comedy show at local comedy clubs in the XL Funnywriters Fest. With just a brief amount of rehearsal, we put up sketches at The Hideout, The Velveeta…
Whirled News on NPR
A few people from the Whirled News Tonight cast went down to the KUT studios, the local NPR affiliate, yesterday to record a piece about our show. It turned out wonderfully. Big thanks to Julie…
Improv Storytelling and Singing
My specialty workshops were exciting for me. For the first time I taught an Advanced Storytelling class. I took all the improvised story structures I knew and we explored different narrative techniques. The storytelling aspect…
Dramatic Improv?
Lately I’ve had several students ask me, “Does improv have to be comedy?” “Or how do you keep this work from being totally light and fluffy?” My standard answer is no, improvisational theatre does not…
Improv Tours at The Blanton Museum 24 Grand Opening
On the first night of the biggest art museum on a college campus, they brought in a team of improvisers to lead late night comedy tours of the new collections. I came straight from a…
The Closest I’ve Gotten to Being in The New York Times
In today’s Nytimes there’s an article about the 24 hour grand opening of the new Blanton Museum of Art on the UT Campus. And they mention the improv show I’m in tonight starting at Midnight.…