Out of Bounds Improv Festival and Miniature Golf Tournament Wrap Up
Man, Out of Bounds was an awesome blur of improv and parties and golf. For me, the best thing about OOB is the chance to get rejuvenated about improv. I get to see great shows…
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 Shrug
After teaching a status class to my Improv 101 students last night, this morning I read an interesting article in the New York Times about the universal gesture of shrugging or extending and open palm.…
Improv on TV
GGG was lucky enough to perform on the Public Access TV show Sacre Bleu this week. We got to have two twenty-five minute sets in the small studio with two camera man, two hosts, a…
August Newsletter Article: Strong Choices Are Generous Choices
It can seem counter- intuitive, but strong choices are generous choices. I give that note all the time in improv class. Here’s usually what happens right before I say such a thing: a scene is…
Catching Up . . .
What can I say? It’s been a while. The excuses: I’ve been working on a whole new website, I got married in May, I’ve been teaching a lot, and I’ve been generally lame and procrastinatory.…
What is Laughter?
An interesting article in the NYTIMES about the biological foundations of laughter. The headline reads: What’s So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing Like any comedian knows, a lot of it has to do with who is…
Improv 101 Class Photo
I just finished another Improv 101 class. It was a great group and two of the students even decided to repeat the class for fun. Here is us in our class photo on the last…