One of the subjects I’ve been asked a lot about over the years is coaching improv. Over the last three years — since we established a three-tier system to our teams (Incubator, Harold and House teams) — that question has been asked more and more. What is the role of an improv coach? To answer that, I first want to address the nomenclature of improv “teams” and why those teams have “coaches.”
A thought occurred to me the other day while showering — which is where all my best ideas strike — that if a parallel universe exists for every choice I make and every choice you make, then it is theoretically impossible for me to cross over into another universe. The simple act of crossing over into another [...]
Over the years, I’ve started and stopped these blog things maybe five or six times. Maybe it’s time, maybe it’s lack of interest or readership, maybe I get bored, but I always shut them down and I always return to my love of writing.
If I had kept at it, I would probably be an Internet celebrity by now as thousands [...]