Spring Headshot Special for Improvisers

Have you been thinking about refreshing your headshots? If you do improv, either as a student or a performer, I’m giving you a reason to get off the back wall and act now. If you book a headshot session with me before April 30, 2011, I’m giving a $150...

North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival 2010

Every year I head down to Carrboro, North Carolina for the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, hosted by my good friend Zach Ward and his Dirty South Improv Theater. The festival has been around for 10 years now, and has grown immensely in the four years that...

Bill Cosby in Hamilton

I’ve been a fan of The Cos since I was a child. I used to stay up late listening to the Sunday Night Funnies on CHUM FM. George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Cheech and Chong, Bob Newhart, Eddie Murphy, Monty Python, The Frantics and Richard Pryor were the rock stars of...

Saving creativity

Here’s an interesting speech by Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote Eat, Pray, Love. She brings up some interesting points about creativity and how western society’s attitudes towards it have changed in the last few thousand years. She contemplates the difficulty...

Commitment

I feel like I’ve reached a new level in my improv lately. The past two Big in Japan shows have been great, and I’ve been feeling really good about them. The difference has been that I’ve been working on my emotional commitment to scenes. Teaching the...