Posts Tagged ‘Charna Halpern’
The Big Switch-Up
Posted by mouse | Filed under News, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Mouse
My only consistent template to follow for this blog is sports journalism, so that should explain my consistent use of baseball metaphors, my hyperbole and speculation. To some, this is irresponsible. To others, this is journalism. The big news out of iO West is that the show schedule has gotten a serious reworking. Ever since [...]
Improv Helps Science!
Posted by Brary | Filed under News, The Brary
I just stumbled across this NPR article from a couple years ago. iO West’s founder Charna Halpern was brought on to help scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research communicate better. Pretty cool, huh? Check out the audio here and the transcript below. ————————- JACKI LYDEN, host: On Wednesday, scientists in Geneva will switch [...]
Psychoanalysis, Narcotics & Improvisational Theater
Posted by Mouth | Filed under Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Mouth
Upon searching some iO Chicago Blog arcives, I came across this refreshing blog written by Charna Halpern concerning Del Close thoughts on the Harold. This is a repost from 2006 but still completely worthwhile! Here is also the link to the archive if you want to read some comments! Enjoy! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I was cleaning out my book shelf [...]
Improv Can Help – Business Skills
Posted by Plague | Filed under Interviews, Talkin' Shop - We talk improv, The Plague
Blog Talk Radio host Barry J Holtz’s topic this week is: How Comedy and Improv Can Help Your Business Skills I guess he knew about our little exercise in validating this beautiful art form we kill ourselves over. Huh. cool. Pretty convenient. Here’s the link to his hour long interview with Charna Halpern (iO), John [...]
Women in Comedy II: Improv/Sketch
Posted by Plague | Filed under News, The Plague
Thanks to mister Ryan Hubbard for this wonderful article on women in improv/sketch (All these women got their start in improv and most still have regular teams) over at the Chicago Reader. I’m proud to say 1/2 these women are my peers (including Molly HALL whom I, when first seeing her name on a roster [...]
Real World Improv – Charna teaches physicists improv
Posted by Plague | Filed under News, The Plague
This week I am running a new series. Every day I am going to highlight a different company that is using improv for other ways than performance. At one point in my life (when I had just moved to Chicago) I wanted to be a martyr for improv and got it into my head that [...]
Becoming a coach
Posted by Plague | Filed under Coach's Corner, The Plague
Recently while hanging out at the bar at iO a fellow player was talking about wanting to become a coach, but not knowing what the path is to get there. “How do I become a coach?” I don’t think there’s just one path for becoming a coach. I will tell you how I became a [...]
www.improvinterviews.com
Posted by Plague | Filed under Interviews, Resources for improvisers, The Plague
I recently discovered an old blog at www.improvinterviews.com. It doesn’t seem like the person who started this blog is still into it since the last entry is from 2007. But there’s a handful of very cool interviews here, including Charna Halpern, Matt Besser, Peter Gwinn, and this one with Susan Messing. This site is hard [...]
On the Western Front
Posted by Mouth | Filed under Big Ups - Other improv teams that rule, Guest Blog, The Mouth
Hey guys! I asked the guys from MI’s Westside Comedy Theater to write a series about opening their own theater and just being over there on the West side. Here’s the first blog by Sean Monahan. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Owning a theater wasn’t exactly something on which M.i. (Mission IMPROVable) was focused. It’s not that we hadn’t talked [...]
