Yearly Archives: 2006

Out of Bounds Announcements

Out of Bounds Improv Festival and Miniature Golf Tournament is the best week of the year for improv in Austin. And each year seems to be better than the last. This year I’m serving as…

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Stephen Colbert on "Yes And"

Here’s the last bit of Stephen Colbert’s commencement speech at Knox College.The full text is here But you seem nice enough, so I’ll try to give you some advice. First of all, when you go…

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Girls Gone Wild: DT Weekend

The Girls are in the cover story of the Daily Texan Weekend section promoting our new run of shows, The Boys of Summer. The photos are awesome and the article explores the different style and…

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XL Funnywriters Fest–Cover Story

I ended this month performing in the sketch comedy show at local comedy clubs in the XL Funnywriters Fest. With just a brief amount of rehearsal, we put up sketches at The Hideout, The Velveeta…

Whirled News on NPR

A few people from the Whirled News Tonight cast went down to the KUT studios, the local NPR affiliate, yesterday to record a piece about our show. It turned out wonderfully. Big thanks to Julie…

Improv Storytelling and Singing

My specialty workshops were exciting for me. For the first time I taught an Advanced Storytelling class. I took all the improvised story structures I knew and we explored different narrative techniques. The storytelling aspect…

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Dramatic Improv?

Lately I’ve had several students ask me, “Does improv have to be comedy?” “Or how do you keep this work from being totally light and fluffy?” My standard answer is no, improvisational theatre does not…