Introduce yourself here:

[Hawkins]

Jeff Hawkins Linebacker 5'11 230 Newport News Va

started improvising for a failed sketch group at the University of Virginia in a failed troupe that was to have included Tina Fey (name drop name drop name drop)

proud member of the first class of grads at Second City LA, currently at IO West and did a couple years at the LA Connection (which incidentally drove me to the previous two )

any LA types want to hang, drink, watch improv, let me know, always wondering what evil lurks behind the screennames.

 

[Corky St. Clair]

new girl on the prowl...

hi, i'm randi, and i just completed a level one class at ucb (nyc) w/ billy merritt, and i'm officially an improv-addict. it started out as fun, a cheap passtime, a way to get to know people, but now it's starting to interfere with my work and personal lives. where can i get help?

 

[Delilah]

I'm Delilah

And I am new to UCB. I am so glad to be here, love the show and all the shows I see at the theater, especially Mr. A$$.

Well, that's me.

 

[Dave Dumanis]

Hi,

I'm Dave Dumanis from San Francisco. I usually lurk on this board because I love longform and we don't have much of it here in SF (although there is True Fiction Magazine, which is great).

I'm with a longform group called Justifiable Dramacide. We've been working together for a few months, did one show that got a great response (more than one person asked us if it was scripted afterwards) and are looking forward to our next on Aug 3rd. We have a good vibe--men and women, black and white, gay and straight all with the goal to be as twisted, nasty and un-PC as possible while staying true to character & narrative.

And, of course, I was trained at BATS and still do shortform there a couple times a month.

The Bay Area needs more longform! So, anybody who wants to come out here, feel free.. .there's not much work but the weather's decent.

 

[Yancy Scrimp]

Dave Dumanis mentioned:

(although there is True Fiction Magazine, which is great).

TFM is hands down the best improv I have ever seen anywhere - having lived in SF, LA, and now in NY. I hear Rafe Chase and Steven Kearin are no longer with the them. I'm wondering how they hold up without these two formidable improvisors?

Say hello to Rebecca Stockley for me.

 

[Dave Dumanis]

Rafe is still with True Fiction; Steve Kearin I believe lives in L.A. now but comes down to do shows called "3 for all" --also longform--a 3-man show with Steven, Rafe, and Tim Orr. And TFM is still great, even without Steven.

 

[Yancy Scrimp]

I'm pretty sure Rafe stepped down from TFM. A check of the web site - www.sirius.com/~truficma/ - says Reed is also gone. Wow. And then there were 4 (and J. Raul).

I got to see a couple of those 3-for-all shows before I left and they were delicious. Something to be said for improv with "no rules".

 

[Dave Dumanis]

Omigosh, I stand corrected. Last time I saw TFM, he was with them, but it was back around the beginning of the year, so maybe he hadn't left yet or was just guesting.

 

[Etra]

What the hell.

I forgot all about this thread, never actually posting in it, savoring my lurker status, but it's back up at the top again so why the heck not. Maybe it'll encourage whoever else is still lurking around here.

Ian Etra. Native of NY. Only child. Repeated "Advanced Beginner" in swimming 4 times in summer camp.

Team-less. Job-less. Peerless. Fearless.

Currently taking "organic" with "Billy Merritt."

Need more: Motivation, concentration, elation, vacation
Need less: Frustration, cogitation, contemplation, Haitian...s?

True: I can draw really well on an Etch-a-Sketch. I can eat more spicy food than you can. I "test well." I look great in these pants.

False: I have a beautiful soprano singing voice. I am the governor of Rhode Island. I can cook an egg merely with the power of my mind.

I'm more of a behind-the-scenes, subversive kind of comedian, but I'd like to work with a group. I do stand-up, improv and writing, video editing and directing, computer graphics and all things web.

I really hate computers.

If you're still reading this, thanks.

---

PS. Hi, Brian Stack!

 

[Odes]

I...

am Naomi Talma Odes.

am currently residing in NYC. Moving to LA in Sept.

am an Actress/Writer/Complainer

was Born St. Barnabas Hospital, Livingston, NJ

grew up in West Orange, NJ

took levels 1,2 and 3 at UCB. Not on a team, but enjoy
the UCB theater community.

am looking for a job, car and a place to live in LA, among other things.

was in a movie entitled "Double D" that was not pornographic.

 

[Cpt. USA]

I, uh, oh.

Oh yeah. I suppose I should probably do this thing.

I'm Rob Cacy. The real Rob Cacy. All the other...forget it.

I'm from Anchorage, AK. I went to film school in Montana at Montana State University - Bozeman.
("fun fact #1": look carefully, or not so much, at Sam Neill's truck in Jurassic Park III. Montana State U is where Jack Horner teaches and supposedly where Dr. Grant is doing research)

It's not a bad film school and it's a sort of enclave of the arts in a otherwise sometimes terribly beautiful and sometimes totally barren state. Kind of a mini-Alaska without the polar bears and eskimos, but with it's own brand of outlaw justice.

Anyway. There I got into an established short-form group and worked on stuff for just over three years. The group was/is called Spontaneous Combustibles (one of many groups with some variation of that phrase).

("fun fact #2": the name Spontaneous Combustibles was chosen after defeating the narrow runner-up 'The Cheese Wizards' - proving something, although I'm not entirely sure what)

In the troupe we did conferences and conventions and bi-weekly (or is it bi-monthly...um, every other week) shows at a coffee shop.

I've been out in New York for just under a year. Thrilled to be in Julie's level 3 class at the UCB. And, excited to be working in the more honest, pure, disgusting and beautiful world of long-form improv.

 

[Lauren Snyder]

joining this very late

I'm Lauren Snyder, I'm 24 yrs old and I'm such a Jersey girl. I started doing improv at Penn State six years ago, and took all six levels at Second City's NY training center. I was lucky enough to take two levels with Martin de Maat, who rocked my world.

I'm now in Level 3 at the UCB with Billy Merritt, who is super-awesome. Future plans include taking level 4 classes with as many of you brilliant people as possible, taking level 2 of Armando Diaz's kick-ass sketch-writing class, and working, buying, or sleeping my way onto a Harold Team. Hey, I'll do whatever it takes.


Lauren

 

[Absynthe]

Howdy, all.

Been putting this off for too long. Here goes:

In what is truly one of the saddest stories known to man, I became interested in learning improv about three weeks before I left Chicago for a job in St. Louis. You see, I'd lived on Sheffield and Cornelia for over three years -- that's less than 500ft. from the IO, for those of you playing at home -- and finally went to the IO, like I promised myself I would all those years in Chi-Town, and fell in love.

Then I moved to St. Louis.

I recovered from a nasty physical injury and joined City Improv, a competitive short-form company in downtown STL. I enjoy it immensely. After the CIF, several of our group are wishing to branch our horizons both in long-form and sketch comedy. I'm making regular visits to Chicago to eat cheap at Penny's and take extensive notes.

My name is Paul, and I am a doofus. But I'm working on it.

Other details: I still believe that the Bobby Flay victory was a conspiracy, I've been playing guitar since I was nine, I know how to grade diamonds, I work as network admin for a PR firm, my CD collection is pushing 4 digits, and my girlfriend is one smart cookie. My brother and one of my sisters are about to form an improv league team. And I miss Chicago.

 

[Shaun Landry]

My name is Shaun Landry.

I'm orginally a Chicago native and started doing theatre in Elementary School...then took some classes at Goodman School for Teenagers. That is where I found out about the Second City. I always thought it would be cool to do improv once I saw the Second City perform in '82

Performed with Geese Theatre Company...came home...found my husband Hans Summers in a group called Fooglewoogle...turned that into Underground Theatre Conspiracy...that became Oui Be Negroes. That covers about 15 years. In between all that did a short stint as an understudy of the Second City Touring Company.

I live in San Francisco/Oakland now. I teach at BATS. I just got cast as Ariel in the Tempest...and my SF agent actually *does stuff for me now*

Improv is the most incredible form of theatre there is in my mind.

And almost every improvisor I know, are the most generous cats around.

I'm 36 as of today.

 

[Trefrog66]

im Greg
im 18
ive completed classes at the Annoyance, ComedySportz, IO, and the Second City High School Program, oh and level 1 at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
My resume says I was an extra in Richie Rich, but I wasn't.
I Play bass in a Satanic Surf Band called the Jacklegs. Its where Ozzy mEATS Dick.
i don't capiltolize words im supposed too.
I dropped out of High School after completeing my Junior year, but I get my GED this Monday.
im a theatre major at Columbia College but i try not to take myself too seriously.
i DM very well.
oh and I was a varsity fencer for 3 years in High School. But we werent very good. Oh and it was foil.
um I think thats it.
yeah i think so.
Oh I Love everyone.
:love:

Greg Inda

Hey Mr. Lamp post, whatcha knowing, came to watch your flowers growing.
-Elton John?

 

[Trefrog66]

Dandunford has informed me my quote was Simon and Garfunkel. Which is very correct.

 

[Rob Webber]

At long last

I've been on the board for a while but am just getting around to this now.

I was raised in Buffalo, NY. Graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a degree in Broadcast Production. After a couple of years of local theater and selling CD's in the mall, I moved to NYC, where I attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and got my first taste of Improv.

I studied Improv with a bunch of different folks here in NY, mostly short form, scene work and musical improv. I enrolled in Second City's NY program and graduated. Now I am in a Level 2 class at UCB.

During the day, I work at The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, because I am a lousy waiter. I used to work at Dallas BBQ, and gave up restaurants after the BBQ fired me a SECOND time.

I love what I'm doing now though!

Rob

 

[ryloc]

go steelers!

hmm hi, i'm ryan!

i'm a pittsburgher living in salt lake city. curently i'm working as a computer programmer, and learning improv 3 days a week with a local troupe. i like romantic dinners and long walks on breezy evenings. right now i'm wearing a tube sock and a yellow bandana.

oh, and sometimes this happens when i drink too much: uke:

 

[ryloc]

Re: joining this very late

Originally posted by Lauren Snyder
I'm Lauren Snyder, I'm 24 yrs old and I'm such a Jersey girl. I started doing improv at Penn State six years ago...

hey, if i would have started doing improv earlier, we would have met. i graduated penn state in may 2000. anyway, later.

 

[Lauren Snyder]

re: what

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