Next week is Thanksgiving, which makes me think of gratitude… and turkey, and pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce, and stuffing. But mostly gratitude. I used to hate when people would use that word. I thought it was some New Age bullshit or Oprah-speak. And I certainly didn't think having gratitude was attainable, and if it was, […]
If you want to get better at your art, you have to constantly stay open to learning. This has not always come easily for me. After a couple of years of improv classes, I thought I had it all figured out. I was done with classes. I was more interested in the results than in getting better. But […]
As an improviser, there's nothing worse than being in the middle of a scene and calling your scene partner by the wrong character name. Or saying that you are in Paris when it was already established you are in California. Ouch. To be a good improviser, you need to not only listen to the last […]