INT. WHALE - AFTERNOON I wrote a sketch for a Late Night Comedy Writing Class. The assignment was to write a cold open for a latenight show and I wrote it for Whalefall, a movie about, in part, the process of Whale Fall. The sketch was about a host doing their
The first person I studied any improv with was Dell Close and a lot of people had a guru relationship to him, or some people, not a lot, but some people did, he used to say you're not improvising you're just letting the universe channel through
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Writers Guild Foundation (@wgfoundation) This was a passion project that took 18 years to get made. I'm relieved it didn't happen a day sooner. Good luck and stick with it. —Katie Dippold I like this quote
I am still recovering from And Camp. I am sick and I am sleep-deprived due to some life choices (taking too many improv and comedy writing classes—more on that some other time). Bear with me, please. When you sign up to go to an adult improv sleepover camp,
I'm attending The And Camp today through Sunday. I'm excited to spend some time working on my craft, but also meet people in real life I've only ever met online! I'll try and have a review/debrief up next week.
[...]Amy was our 1st director, and she's a pirate. Two things I learned from her. Number one, don't let fear crash on your couch because they're never going to leave. And number two, step on the blood—no bathe in the blood of the
I have a show tonight which means my brain is currently trying to plan for an improv show. It won't be successful. I get to thinking about the pattern game open to maybe the first beat I'll be a part of and then realize that I
Some stray thoughts on premise. In the UCB manual, premise is defined as: [T]he term used to describe a fully-formed comedic idea found in an opening that strongly suggests a Game. — Besser, Roberts, and Walsh, The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual, p. 94 I don't
I am having ongoing technical woes this month, all unrelated to each other. Currently I've been without home internet for 14 hours, which makes pulling together a post challenging. I've been rewatching this set from The Smokes. I love how the game develops during the second
Using the excuse of my laptop being blown up and off at a repair site to continue my series on the building blocks of improv. I have been fortunate to be able to take some classes online and in person with Will Hines. During my first class, I asked a
A Brief History of Writing I've been open about who I am on the internet, so I might as well say that this is me. This is the closest I've come to doing what I wanted to do for a living. In 2006, somehow TWENTY YEARS
I had a thought that this scene in HBO's Chernobyl gets at something primal with improv. That, for how challenging it is, we're really just balancing two things as performers: Game and Scene. Something that's really clicked for me recently is Jim Wood—I&