You Got This!
Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes there are just too many things to think about throughout the day and people just don’t understand that your life is so much more hectic and harder than theirs… then…
Category: Student Blog
If you share an experience and fail at it, is it actually failing?
I’d like to begin this blog post by congratulating myself, and of course everyone else in my class, on being awesome enough to create songs out of nowhere. I had convinced myself that writing and creating…
In improv, as in life, you can conduct, but you can’t control
I was back in Austin before the start of the spring semester at UT and I wanted to meet up with my gal pal Jordan. So, we headed over to Austin Java with mouthfuls to…
An interview with a local new-ish Austin improviser: Mr. Anonymous
A little about our interviewee: Mr. Anonymous is a Salesman (of amazing products of course) for his day job and travels the country quite often. But we’re not really here to talk about his day…
Celebrity Improvisers – What Made Them Yes And their Way to the Big Stage?
We won’t bore you with a history lesson on improv, improvising, improv comedy, etc. but we are pretty sure that acting and performance in a non-scripted theatrical, in-the-moment way has been around since the Shakespearean days…
An interview with an Austin improvisor (fairly newbie): Megan Ehrisman
A little about our interviewee: Megan works full time at the University of Texas and started taking improv classes with Merlin Works in January 2015. She has taken levels 101-301 and performed in a Graduation show in…
What has Improv done for you lately?
Definition of IMPROV* : of, relating to, or being improvisation and especially an improvised comedy routine — improv noun The definition of improv from *Merriam Webster dictionary includes the word“comedy” in it. So, inherently, you would think that improv must provide you…