Monthly Archives: January 2005

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.”…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…