Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Bill Murray Interview
Posted by dandy | Filed under Historic Improvisers, Interviews
Twitter @USSRockNRoll / FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/USSRockNRoll This is an interview by Esquire’s Scott Raab with improviser & actor Bill Murray. Published in the June/July 2012 issue. —————————– Friday, early evening in the basement of Murray’s house in Charleston, South Carolina. Raab got into town around noon. SCOTT RAAB: Your name came up once in an interview [...]
5 Years of USSRR w/ Phillip Mottaz
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Mouse, USS Show Review
Twitter @USSRockNRoll – FACEBOOK USSRR recently turned five years old. As a part of our celebration, we took some time to answer a few questions. Here are former crew member Phillip Mottaz’s responses. Enjoy! Name: Phillip Mottaz Code Name: The Mouse How long have you been improvising? Sixteen years. Jeez, really? Jeez. [...]
5 Years of USS w/ Tony Lewellen
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Trapper
Twitter @USSRockNRoll – Facebook: www.facebook.com/USSRockNRoll * Tony Llewellen is a new Father and is suffering from sleep depravation. Name: Tony Lewellen Code Name: Trapper How long have you been improvising? I guess you start when you are a kid and you are playing with other kids. It was not called improvising until [...]
USS Rock ANNIE Roll
Posted by Mouth | Filed under Interviews, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Mouth
Members of USSRR were given a list of questions to answer about their time on the team. This entry is submitted by USS Rock N Roll’s Annie Kouris aka The Mouth. USSRR will be celebrating 5 years of playing together in a special live event on Tuesday, May 8th on the iO West Mainstage at 10:30pm. We [...]
USSRR Insider with Erica Gowland
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, USS Show Review
Written by USS Rock N Roll’s Erica Gowland aka The Vac. USSRR will be celebrating 5 years of playing together in a special live event on Tuesday, May 8th on the iO West Mainstage at 10:30pm. We hope you will join us for FREE PIZZA, DRINK SPECIALS, PRIZES & MORE!!! As the newest member [...]
Mike O’Brien in the Chicago Tribune
Posted by dandy | Filed under Big Ups - Other improv teams that rule, Interviews
This is a re-post of an article that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on April 04, 2012 Written By Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune reporter Mike O’Brien is 35 and single, lives in New York and works as a staff writer for”Saturday Night Live.”He is earnest and polite, comes from a long line of South [...]
TGIF: Del Close, Improv Everywhere & TED Talks
Posted by dandy | Filed under Big Ups - Other improv teams that rule, Historic Improvisers, Interviews, Resources for improvisers, Videos
This first clip is a real short interview answer from Del Close talking about why he believes improv is performance worthy of it’s own merits. I for one am extremely grateful that he felt this way.
Camp Improv Utopia: An Interview with Levin O’Connor
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, News, The Dandy
By Nick Armstrong – I’ve had the great pleasure of performing on a team called iO Repertory with Levin and I have to say some of the most magical moments onstage in my career have happened with him performing the JTS Brown. Levin is a true artist when it comes to Improv as best shown [...]
An interview with Annie Kouris
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, The Dandy, The Mouth
This spring USSRRerz The Mouth and The Dandy will be teaching at the annual Camp Improv Utopia. If you are an improv fan and you have not yet heard about the camp, wake up! This is what you have been hoping would happen your whole adult life. If you have heard of the camp, but [...]
TED: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on FLOW
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, Resources for improvisers, The Dandy, Videos
If you are like me, you probably have never heard of positive psychology or Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. But thanks to the glories of social media this talk came across my bow last week and I loved it. It has lots of obvious connections to improv, so I won’t bother pointing those out but I do [...]
