So, as I promised, this past Sunday, my Level 1 Improv class at the PIT performed our class show. Our final class, in which we basically practiced the form of the show, seemed a little rough to me. I still feel like I’m struggling to be a relaxed, grounded performer. I was a little worried.

I shouldn’t have been. We rocked. Everyone in the ( Read more... )

Last night, I attended my penultimate level 1 improv class at The Pit. One of the consequences of having a class is having a class show at the end of the term. For the first time last night, we practiced doing the actual form we’ll be performing in our show. After being kind of down about my performance ability last week, I was actually quite ( Read more... )

This is mostly for my own educational benefit.  Feel free to ignore, especially if you’re not into improv esoterics.

Yesterday evening was my fourth improv class, and my third attempt at performance on the stage of the PIT during their Wednesday night Improdome free-for-all.  To recap: My first performance was a miserable failure.  My second was an ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I went to see my good friend Alexandra Finger perform her Level 1 improv class graduation show at Upright Citizens Brigade. As is often the case with a Level 1 show, the performances were… shall we say… uneven. But Alex, as usual, was hysterically funny.

I haven’t performed improv in a very, very long time.  It used to be my life ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I did some publicity shots for "Funny as a Crutch." Well, the New York Times came to review the show, and guess whose photo they used.

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/theater/reviews/06crut.html

Aw, yeah.

I left work on Friday afternoon and headed directly to Broadway and Steinway to help Benjamin with his first trick-or-treating adventure. I've never been trick-or-treating in an urban area before, so I wasn't used to kids going into stores for candy, but all the kids were doing it, so Benjamin partook as well ( Read more... )

Here's a shot from our second photo call:


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We managed to fight the heat and humidity between yesterday's shows to knock out a few shots for our photo call.


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I just uploaded the photos I took at the 9th Annual Midtown International Theater Festival Awards.

(Here's defy_gravity99 accepting his award.)


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Despite the fact that I truly understand the odds involved, I'm something of a nervous flyer. I guess it's that whole "illusion of control" fallacy that's hard to get over. And so, whenever I land, I call my loved ones and say, "The miracle of air travel has worked once again, and I'm safe ( Read more... )