The next Girls show is this Friday, Feb 18 11pm at Arts on Real. On Tuesday night I have to head over to KVRX studios near campus. The Girls will be on the radio between…
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.)
Improv 201
My first Improv 101 class is coming to a close this week. I’m really happy with the retention rate. I was more flexible with my curriculum than usual and I think that kept it more…
Best of the Week, II
Shannon McCormick and I, through Gnap! Theatre Company, entered FronteraFest with a two person improv show. Through weeks of rehearsal, we came up with 24 (minutes), an improvised parody of the hit TV show “24.”…
GGG Retreat
The Girls had our retreat last week and we set up some new goals and plans for the year. We’re hoping to get into the Atlanta Improv Festival in May. We decided our new genre…
Best of the Week!
Girls Girls Girls (http://ggg.austinimprov.com) just won Best of the Week at FronteraFest (http://www.hydeparktheatre.org). This is a great honor. It means we get to perform again this Saturday and it is also a recognition we can…
Improv 101
I just finished the first class of a new Improvisation 101 class at The State Theatre School of Acting (http://www.austintheatre.org/site/PageServer?pagename=StateSchoolSpring2005). The energy was great. The class was totally full with 15 people showing up. January…
Book Recommendation
My newest favorite book for improv is not about improv at all. It’s called The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler. It takes the work of Joseph Campbell and shows the direct…