Today, my guest is Shannon Stott. Shannon is the creator and director of Improv On and Off the Stage, A virtual Improv Studio offering virtual classes and workshops. Based in Austin, TX she has been performing and teaching Improv since 2000. Sh

Adaptations with Kareem Badr

Jul 20th, 2021 48m 25s

Today, my guest is Kareem Badr. Kareem is one of the owners of The Hideout Theatre in Austin, TX , and with his improv team Parallelogramophonograph, he co-authored “Do It Now”, a book of essays on narrative improvisation. In 2020, his fiction

"Empathize first" - David Escobedo

Jul 14th, 2021 59m 10s

Today, my guest is David Escobedo. David is the creator of The Improv Boost, a community-focused social media presence with more than 29,000 followers. David has been teaching and performing improv since 1994. He has studied at iO, Second City,

From Love to Death with Rhiannon Jenkins

Jul 7th, 2021 50m 19s

Today, my guest is Rhiannon Jenkins. Rhiannon is an improviser from London who has been very busy during Lockdown. She has directed The Love Circle, Loose Seuss, and Between the Lines virtually through the Hideout Theatre in Austin, Texas, and

"Do it over and over until your body learns to live onstage" - Michael Hartney

Jun 29th, 2021 42m 6s

Today, my guest is Michael Hartney. Michael was the Artistic Director of UCB New York, where he also co-created the character comedy house teams and spent years on both improv and sketch house teams. This year, Michael co-founded the new nonpro

"Be There for the Human" - Amey Goerlich

Jun 22nd, 2021 56m 20s

Today, my guest is Amey Goerlich. Amey is at Chaos Bloom theater in Denver, Colorado, where she is training center director, co-creative director, co-owner.Amey has directed or coached more than 500 improvisation groups, sketch teams. and off-

"Authenticity is everything" - Karla O'Bryant Dingle

Jun 14th, 2021 52m 26s

Today my guest is Karla O’Bryant Dingle. Karla is the Improv Director and Acting Instructor at Acting Out Studio in Charlotte, NC. She is also a faculty member with Queen City Comedy’s Global Improv Project. She has been performing improv in C

“Why NOT The Netherlands?” - Velvet Wells

Jun 7th, 2021 43m 41s

Today's guest is Velvet Wells. Velvet is the outreach and inclusion manager for The Nursery Theatre in London, as well as the Director of Operations for the Black Improv Alliance. Velvet describes himself as Black, autistic, queer, and velvet-v

“I make it funny for the audience because I made it funny for myself.” - Joe Bill

May 31st, 2021 52m 36s

In this very first episode, I had a great conversation with Joe Bill. Joe is perhaps best known as half of the duo BASSPROV, but he’s also a founding member of The Annoyance Theater in Chicago, where he performed and directed more than 60 shows