Every month or so, Merlin Works releases a new email newsletter, with a feature article about how improv applies to other aspects of life and vice versa. This month’s feature article focuses on how the…
Fun, Fast and Flexible: Improv Skills For Work and Life Energy is contagious! This experiential session is loaded with practical exercises and fresh insights to energize team interactions and improve creative problem solving skills.…
Awards and Honors Outstanding Contribution to the Austin Improv Community, Austin Improv Collective, 2009 Best Improv Teacher, Austin Improv Collective, 2008 Best Female Improviser, Austin Improv Collective, 2008 Best Improv Class, Austin Improv Collective, 2008…
To see these six people performing this musical number together about the importance of being prepared at school – singing in harmony, stepping in time – you’d swear they rehearsed the number beforehand, perhaps even…
The Austin Chronicle on two of Shana’s troupes, “Get Up” and “Girls Girls Girls”: “Two of those troupes, Get Up and The Knuckleball Now were among the best we’d ever seen . . . And later,…
Austin Wide Open Magazine: “Another veteran performer, Shana Merlin, has performed with numerous troupes including Los Paranoias, The Oxymorons, and ultimately with Sean Hill’s Austin Theatresports. When Hill first opened the Hideout and started The Heroes…
Austin Woman Magazine: “Learning improv can open up a new way of seeing and interacting with the world. Among the many lessons to be gleamed from improv are learning to build trust, examine relationships and improve…