“90% of life is showing up.” -- Woody Allen I want to write something, but I can't. It’s one of those days when the best thing I can do is to just show up to the page. And the hardest part is being alright with that. I have a wise friend who says just because I am […]
"Perfect is the enemy of good." — Voltaire For most artists, creating is the fun part. The problem comes when they want to get their work out in the world. They have been bitching and moaning that they're nobody recognize their art for years, but when they have the chance to put themselves out there, […]
Our goal as artists is to evolve, and the best way to do that is to constantly challenge our way of thinking and our approach. One way effective way to do that is by reading books about improv. The goods ones, and there are a lot of them out there, make you look at things […]
I have been performing since I was in my 20s. And when I started out, I wish to God someone would have told me that to get good at improv, you’re going to have to get comfortable being bad at it for a while – in public – before you can master it. There are […]
If there is one thing that is certain in improv, it’s that you are going to fail. Hopefully, you will continue to fail throughout your career, because in improv, if you don't give up, that failure eventually turns into success. No matter how hard you try to avoid it, you cannot have one with other. Unfortunately, […]
We recently held a little contest to win a free spot in my upcoming workshop. We asked improvisers to tell us about a time that they had bombed, and what they learned from it. Like every improviser, I've had more than my share of shows where I have bombed. I have not only bombed on stage, […]