Posts Tagged ‘Erica Gowland’

USSRR Insider with Erica Gowland

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 [...]

Tuck’s Mailbag

  Kermit from Encino, CA writes: Hey Tuck, With the 5 year anniversary of USS Rock n Roll coming up next Tuesday (May 8th), can you tell us how you got on this team and how you knew everyone? Sure Kermit. In 2007 Levin O’Connor was on The Jungle with Annie Kouris, and I was [...]

The Toddler: Improv’s Best Kept Secret

Written by Erica Gowland (Crew) Part 4: Pregprov   I have been asked if being pregnant affected my improv, so I thought about it a lot. When I was pregnant with Toddler (who was then called Baby G) and still able to perform in improv shows, I played a lot of pregnant characters, or was [...]

The Toddler: Improv’s Best Kept Secret

Written by Erica Gowland Part 3: Playing is Hard Work   I have a 17 month old daughter. She is without a doubt my favorite kid on the planet. However, I often notice that at 17 months, she is already a better improviser than I am. Toddlers are very good at playing. My Toddler, luckily, [...]

The Toddler: Improv’s Best Kept Secret (part 2)

Written by The Vac I have a 16 month old daughter. She is without a doubt my favorite kid on the planet. However, I often notice that at 16 months, she is already a better improviser than I am  If you have ever spent any time around a toddler, you will know that you spend [...]

The Toddler: Improv’s Best Kept Secret

(Written by USSRR’s The Vac)   I have a 16 month old daughter. She is without a doubt my favorite kid on the planet. However, I often notice that at 16 months, she is already a better improviser than I am. She is confident, plays game extremely well, and she is very observant. Take this [...]

Bringing Improv to the Masses

Please welcome Erica Gowland (formerly Noshang for you true blue fans) from Local 132 who is guest blogging today for us on the subject of marketing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have a question, one that I do not know the answer to, and I think would be fun to discuss. How do we bring improv out of [...]

USS wins at Dels and why I love improvisers.

USS Rock ‘N Roll won the Del award for best Harold team last night at iO West’s annual Del awards. What does this mean?! It means we paid a lot of people to vote for us. But seriously folks… here’s why I love improvisers. I have worked for financial companies, production houses, multi-million dollar boutique [...]