Early Bird Improv Class Registration Discount Extended
You can now get your $25 discount on Merlin Works Spring Improv Classes through Tuesday, March 6th. We’ve extended the deadline by 24 hours to allow for all the quirks of the new website to…
Category: School News
This is hard. This wave of the Delta Variant pulled the rug out from under our well planned life. All of us. So we are going to postpone the start of classes until October in hopes that the current wave will have slipped back to Stage 3 or or better, 2.
So let’s start again.
This October, Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation will have a range of In-Person classes for you to attend. We’ll have Improv, Musical Improv, Stand Up , Storytelling, and some Master Classes with our good friend, Asaf Ronen. Plus we have a venue for shows! Stuff is happening In-Person in October at Merlin-Works.
Please stay safe. Get vaccinated if you can. Wear a mask to stop the spread and then come join us in October.
Also, we would like all our friends to please place their tongues between their lips and gently blow. Because that best expresses how we at Merlin Works feel today. (See Shana’s Instagram Post for more on this.)
What is a Merlin Works Improv Class Like?
Most workshops start with some ice breaker or warm-up activities to get everyone acquainted, comfortable, focused and energized. After warm-ups, the instructor will give you a brief introduction into the topic at hand and then…
What is Improv? How can it help me?
In the most elemental sense, improvisation is spontaneous creation. Improvisational theatre is when the performers not only are responsible for the writing, editing, casting, directing, and acting but also responsible for accomplishing it all in…
Merlin Works Awards and Festival Appearances
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…
Austin Chronicle: Be Prepared: The secret to improv’s split-second successes is in years of training
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 Merlin’s improv troupes, “Get Up” and “Girls Girls Girls”
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: Improv in Austin
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…