Out of Bounds Comedy Festival August 31 – September 8
Out of Bounds is the biggest week of the year for comedy in Austin, and this year it’s even bigger. Now is a great time to learn about what’s shows are happening, what classes they…
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.)
The Daily Texan Features GGG’s Boys of Summer
A nice writeup this week about Girls Girls Girls’ Boys of Summer, playing the next 5 Fridays at 8pm at The Hideout Theater Troupe suspends ‘girls-only’ rule in summer series By Katherine Kloc, Daily Texan…
The Hugeness of Austin Improv on KUT
I got to be interviewed by the fabulous Julie Moody at KUT as a part of her piece on the resurgence of improv in Austin. You can listen to the piece here: http://kut.org/items/show/21762 We recorded a…
Pre-Show Warmups for LongForm Improv
My friend and improv guru William Hall and I were emailing about how we warm up for narrative longform shows. I ended up writing him a long email describing the warmups for Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica. And…
Press for Dusk in New York City
We got a few cool writeups for our New York City leg of the Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica 2010 National Tour. I had an interview with The New York Press: New Yorkers should be sharpening…
All Three of My Projects Written Up in the Austin Chronicle
Here is a great article in the arts section of the Chronicle today. It focuses on all the awesome Austin improv troupes that have been touring around this year. Happily, it mentions all three of…
Zen and The Art of Improv
My Improv 201 student, Rupesh, just opened his new Chinese Medicine Studio, Windhorse Medicine. He wrote a lovely article about the parallels of improv and Zen meditation on his new website. Here’s an excerpt Black mats.…