Best of the Week at FronteraFest and Review
Get Up won Best of the Week in Week 2 of Frontera Fest. We debuted our new format, “The Adventurers” and got a great response. Here’s and excerpt from a review of our Best of…
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 Decider: Faking Your Way Through FronteraFest
I was recently featuring in an article in the Austin Decider, part of the local Onion publication and website. I was interviewed about performing Improv at FronteraFest. They even used some pics from the Merlin…
AIC Annual Awards Just Announced!
And I won “Best Female Improviser” and “Best Teacher/Director/Coach” from the Austin Improv Collective. All the performing improvisers (about 200 people) in Austin get to nominate people and vote on the winners. I’m really happy…
Austin Improv Collective Awards Nominations
I’m pleased to announce I have been nominated for: Best Female ImproviserBest CharactersBest Teacher/Director/CoachBest Improv Troupe (Get Up) And most surprisingly for Best Musical Improviser The awards will be given out at the Annual Austin…
The Essence of Teaching: Not Being Cool
I REALLY liked this article about teaching in the college issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine. To me, the main ideas were that it’s the teacher’s job to jolt the students out of…
Graduation Shows
This September will mark the first graduating classes at Merlin Works. If you want to check out what your future might hold come see: Improv 301 Graduation Show featuring “Whose Line Is It Anyways”-style Improv…
Merlin Works on Fox 7 News
James Irby did an awesome job with this news story. It features Merlin Works team building and corporate training services.Check it out. www.merlin-works.com