Improvisation
July 27, 2008
- When I first got on the Redroom as a completely unplublished writer/rabid blogger the overwhelming welcome was warm, genuine and wonderful.A year later as an unpulbished rabid blogger doing a seven week improvisational theater festival in San Francisco I still find the words genuine warm and wonderful to be true.This weekend was pretty incredible: When Improv meets writers. I had the distinct ...
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July 2, 2008
- It is almost hard at this point to express The Chicago Improv Festival Experience, as, but I will try. It was incredible. Wonderful moments. Strange moments. Joy, bewilderment. Great shows, emotional shutdowns fits of laughing all mixed with Viva Las Vegas, The Rat Pack, it being on like Donkey Kong all wrapped in Midwestern Sushi.The Irish Mutts did it. We ruled the day. Kevin McShane ...
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July 1, 2008
- I have been touring on the road so much (Chicago, Los Angeles, and now Minneapolis) along with the upcoming San Francisco Improv Festival, I feel I have left the Redroom in the corner crying Why don't you love me.Well, I do. I love you Redroom. So this is a full on excerpt of my blog of The Minneapolis Improv Festival. Pictures included. The names have not not been changed to protect noone ...
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February 27, 2008
- There are hundreds of fantastic books out there to learn the craft of improvisational theater. From Viola Spolin's classic Improvisation for the Theater to The Annoyance Theater Chicago's Mick Napier's book Improvise: Scene from The Inside Out and many many others. But if you want a fast read and a quick introduction to improv theater, or you just need a fast reminder if you are doing improv in ...
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February 17, 2008
- This week I found the real Ying and Yang all around. When things are bad personally? Professionally it seems to always rise above.Then all of a sudden when you so need for the Ying and Yang to balance itself out? It magically does. Thursday I was honored to work on Milk (The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated ...
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February 10, 2008
- I've not given 'the blog' much consideration untill now, but as I have this oportunity to begin one I will open this door of perception with an example of what I like to call OpOetic Writing. A combined term meant to define and to separate this (opinionated) work from "poetics" or "poetry" in the main. The form is for individual use or may be done in tandem with another ...
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January 4, 2008
- Every time when a friend asks me about my theater life, I always say the book I would write would be called Lesbian Dancing after the Show.Always an inside joke for the people who lived through it. My husband. Those cast members. Myself:Thank you for coming to our show! We are here every Friday and Saturday Night ... and remember, Lesbian Dancing after the show!Another stereotype checked off for ...
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