I’m the slowest at making style choices. It once took me six months to pick a color to paint my room. Spoiler alert: l chose light purple. So it’s not surprising that picking out new…
UPDATED July 2023. In-person classes are ongoing. Public health remains an important concern for our community and our school. Merlin Works continues to follow the City of Austin guidelines. On March 23, 2023, the City…
Think about those three dots that you see in text chains. You often do. They blink for a mercilessly long time on occasion and your brain wants to fill that space. We can’t help it.…
Solo performance arts such as Storytelling and Stand-Up rely on feedback and collaboration in class. Improv is a collaborative art form, and the best improv happens when everybody involved feels comfortable, supported, and welcomed. At…
Eighteen-plus months in to the pandemic and I still get that feeling of shock when I tune in to NPR first thing in the morning and hear a newscaster say something like “today marks 700,000…
I’ve been coaching an Austin Improv troupe weekly. I absolutely love getting to do this with them. We started last year on Zoom and this summer when Austin’s COVID Stage dropped to Level 2, we…
This is hard. This wave pulled the rug out from under our well-planned life. All of us. So we’re going to postpone the start of classes until October in hopes that the current wave will…