Catch our last show of the season!
Who couldn’t use a few laughs?
Attached is our flyer for the next big show at the Just the Funny Theater, 3119 SW Coral Way, 2nd Floor. (map)
Saturday, June 23 from 9 – 10 p.m.
Get your $10 tickets right here!
Chasing Tales - FINAL SHOW OF THE SEASON!
Improv is my life's passion. My goal is to bring it to as many people as possible from all career backgrounds. I think the principles of improvisation improve people's personal and professional lives. Therefore, improv helps people live lives of greater ease.
Improv is a physically active form of meditation. A person must be in the moment to improvise well. You learn to accept what is happening and go with the flow. Improv also allows you to get back in touch with the creativity that exists deep within you - even once you think it's gone.
I completed the 2-year conservatory at The New Actors Workshop in NYC, where I studied with Paul Sills (one of the founders of The Second City - Chicago's famous improv theatre) and director Mike Nichols (Bird Cage, Angels in America, and most recently, the popular play, Spamalot). I am working on spreading the gift of improv to many people.
Many people think you have to be a comedian or very funny to improvise. This is simply not the case. Improvisation is a physically & verbally active form of meditation – a team sport during which you must be in the moment and playing by the “rules.”
I teach these rules during my introductory courses coming up in August. Check out my “Courses” tab to register. Stand-up comedy is the art form for which you must be funny and a comedian. I have the utmost respect for iy. In improv, the responsibilty is on me, the instructor, to make you funny.
. The last two issues of SAQA Journal had good atcirles on finding your voice and building a body of work. For me improvisation is not just about finding your voice it is about discipline and practice and focus. It’s about understanding color, value, composition, form, shape, design and developing a good enough eye to have a sophisticated knowledge of how these elements work to help you find and develop your unique voice. For the last year I have redoubled my efforts to improve these elements in my own work. I am grateful for what I have been able to do but I want more depth, more beauty in my own work. I feel now that I have only just begun to even figure out how to crack the code. For the last year I have been fortunate to study with a master artist who demands excellence People quilt for different reasons. I accept and respect that (and I admit that I strongly dislike the wonky log cabin mania sweeping the nation).. For me quilt making is a serious art form. Again, for me, I try to show respect for my art form by learning to do it well.