Archive for the ‘The Plague’ Category
Our First Post Ever!
Posted by Touch | Filed under The Plague, The Touch
Ever wonder what the first post of this blog was? Me too. Well, here it is. The very first post (there was one before this but it just gave our show times so I didn’t think it was official) of the USS Rock N’ Roll blog from The Plague (Molly Hale) on 4/18/09. It was [...]
Coaching Tips From An Old Friend
Posted by Tuck | Filed under The Plague, The Tuck
I was looking back at some old posts and I thought this was a good one from Molly “The Plague” Hale. Enjoy Today I want to talk about coaching young, green improvisers. Getting a new team is exciting, especially if they are excited. Your young players are a blank canvas. They aren’t jaded. They haven’t [...]
Where are they now? Molly Hale
Posted by dandy | Filed under Interviews, The Dandy, The Plague
Molly Hale is an actor, writer and comedian who did improv in Chicago for eight years before moving to LA to pursue her dreams. You can read more about her at www.MollyHale.net. Molly also works as the content manager for her husband’s web design company. Their elegant design and beautiful websites, along with email contact and [...]
Where in the world is Molly Hale?
Posted by dandy | Filed under News, Outside Projects, The Plague
So people keep asking me, where is Molly Hale these days? I haven’t seen her in a show in a while. I love when they do because I get to say, “Oh, you mean my dear friend Molly Hale? AKA The Plague. Why she was cast in a play in New York City, but you [...]
Rich Fulcher Interview – Talking in depth about his improv history
Posted by Plague | Filed under Interviews, Resources for improvisers, The Plague
I think it’s no secret that I have an obsession for all things Mighty Boosh, which includes the silliest American I’ve ever known Rich Fulcher. I recently discovered this podcast with Rich where he discusses his career from the thought of doing comedy all the way through his iO training into Second City and beyond. [...]
The Lottery is Great
Posted by Plague | Filed under Outside Projects, Shows, The Plague
I currently coach now and again for the Lottery, a program here at the iO West. Every 4 weeks a new student from each level is chosen to perform for four weeks on the main stage. Each week they get a free rehearsal with a different coach and each show they get to perform with [...]
Eric Yang – guest blog
Posted by Plague | Filed under Guest Blog, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Plague
This week’s guest blog comes emailed to us from Eric Yang who’s currently a student in iO West’s level 3. I took Levels 1-4 at I.O. about three years ago; now I’m back in Level 3 with Craig Cackowski. It’s blogs like yours that inspire me and make me want to keep doing improv. Thanks [...]
Derek Sivers – Confidence Required
Posted by Plague | Filed under Resources for improvisers, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Plague
So, Derek Sivers is the guy who created CD Baby. He did it from scratch not knowing very much about web design or coding. He sold that company for a sheet ton of money. He’s got a GREAT blog where he discusses business stuff. (I know, it’s an improv blog Molly not business blog) but [...]
Go improvise in INDIA!!!
Posted by Plague | Filed under Big Ups - Other improv teams that rule, Resources for improvisers, The Plague
I found this on the Improv Resource Center Message Boards. Pretty cool stuff. If I was travellig to India I would be there in a heart beat. If you go, please write to us here and guest blog about it!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPROV IN SOUTH INDIA Hi folks, anyone travelling to Southern India ? We are [...]
The Village Idiots Improv Blog
Posted by Plague | Filed under Big Ups - Other improv teams that rule, Resources for improvisers, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Plague
A group from Rochester, New York called The Village Idiots have their own improv blog! Their doing something similar to us with daily posts about how everything and everything pertains to improv while at the same time using their blog as a platform to promote themselves. They’ve got some great posts like this one comparing [...]
