The Improv Teachers

It’s Tuesday and…Nate Parsons is our guest!

This is part three of our interview with Nate. We have been touching base about once a month to check in on his progress with his experience coaching his first ever JTS Brown team.

Nate is a spacecraft software developer and improviser living in San Francisco. He works on the Missions Software team at Planet and performs in the Bay Area at Endgames Improv and All Out Comedy Theater.

It’s Tuesday and…Nate Parsons is our guest!

This is part two of our interview with Nate. We have been touching base about once a month to check in on his progress with his experience coaching his first ever JTS Brown team.

Unfortunately, this episode only captured Nate’s audio. However, there is still plenty to hear and it’s Nate we want to hear from anyways!

Nate is a spacecraft software developer and improviser living in San Francisco. He works on the Missions Software team at Planet and performs in the Bay Area at Endgames Improv and All Out Comedy Theater.

It's Tuesday and.... Nate Parsons is our guest!

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We decided to do something a little different. Nate is very new to coaching and directing improv and we thought it would be helpful and interesting to document his journey. We have recorded a series of conversations where we discuss a variety of topics and we hope you find it helpful and interesting.

This is the first episode and was recorded shortly after Nate began coaching his first ever JTS Brown team.

Nate is a spacecraft software developer and improviser living in San Francisco. He works on the Missions Software team at Planet and performs in the Bay Area at Endgames Improv and All Out Comedy Theater.

It's Tuesday and... Órla McGovern is our guest!

Órla Mc Govern is an improviser/performer/teacher/writer based in the West of Ireland. She lived and worked in the US for many years (mainly in Seattle), and it was there that her crush with improv turned into a serious relationship. She was a cast member of a number of groups including Seattle goga, Spolin Players, The Seattle Neutrino Project, The Edge, and improvised with more groups including Dead Gentlemen, Jet City Improv, etc. Órla works regularly as an actor and storyteller around the world, and has appeared appear on tons big and little screens & stages over the years.. She writes plays and is currently working on a Children's Book. She teaches an Improv Lab with The Spontaneous Theatre People, and has facilitated workshops at many festivals including in Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, Romania etc. Órla is Artistic Director of The Sky Babies (improv), Moth & Butterfly ( a storytelling/improv collaboration) and is the Co-Director of Improv Fest Ireland, Ireland's only dedicated festival of improvised theatre & comedy.

It's Tuesday and ... Jose Gonzalez is our guest!

Jose Gonzalez has been involved with improv since 2001, has been an associate producer with the Phoenix Improv Festival since its inception, and is a co-founder of The Torch Theatre in where he regularly performs. He's taught and performed at festivals and theatres across North America with a sprinkling of a few cities in the U.K. and Europe. Jose currently has 250+ tabs open on his phone's browser.

It's Tuesday and... Jeff Quintana is our guest!

It's Tuesday and... Bill Arnett is our guest!

Bill Arnett has been improvising in Chicago for 16 years, performing with some of the most popular and esteemed groups. As an instructor of improvisation he has traveled internationally always bringing his depth of knowledge and remarkable eye for improv problem solving. The former head of the iO Theater training center, he launched the Chicago Improv Studio as a way to explore the concepts introduced in his book The Complete Improvisor.

It's Tuesday and... Will Luera is our guest!

Will is the Director of Improvisation at Florida Studio Theatre, Director of Big Bang Improv and serves as the Artistic Director Emeritus of ImprovBoston, Artistic Director of the Pilsen Improv Festival, Artistic Associate of the Chicago Improv Festival, Artistic Advisor to the Women in Comedy Festival and Part-time Faculty at Boston College. He has appeared in numerous improv festivals around the world and have studied improvisation with ImprovOlympic, The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade, and Keith Johnstone. He has been working with Florida Studio Theatre since 2014. Before that he was with ImprovBoston where he had worked since 1997 directing the Mainstage cast and developing the nationally renowned productions of Sitcom, Secret Society, Blue Screen, Playbook and Quest. In 2004, Will was the Boston and national winner of PAX-TVs World Cup Comedy. I am also a producer and actor in Strange Faculty, which was accepted to the 2007 New York Television Festival, the 2008 Los Angeles Independent Television Festival and was a winner of the 2008 NBC Comedy Short Cuts competition. He tours globally as improv and theater actor, director and instructor that performs and teaches regularly all across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Will is the lucky husband of a beautiful woman and proud father of two. You can reach him at [email protected].

It's Tuesday and .... Amy Lisewski is our guest!

Amy has more than 20 years of experience in business and the arts. She graduated from the Second City Conservatory, trained at iO West, became a member of the Applied Improvisation Network and studied with dozens of master improv teachers from around the country.

Amy is a Vistage Speaker; a certification she uses to help executives become more adaptive leaders through the principles of improv. As a certified Speechless presenter and facilitator, she enables professionals to conquer their fear of public speaking.

She can be found performing improvisational theater on the FCI stage with Killer Giraffe and Swim Team.

To learn more visit www.finestcityimprov.com

It's Tuesday and... Joe Bill is our guest!

Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Scenic and Comedic Improvisation in America today. He currently teaches, performs and is the Director of Corporate Training at iO Chicago. He is also on the faculty at The Second City Training Center where he teaches intensives in Duo Improvisation and Improvisation for Actors. He is one of the founding members of Annoyance Theater Chicago where, for 12 years, he performed in and/or directed more than 60 different shows. Joe first learned Improvisation and in 1977 studied and worked with Del Close from 1985 through the mid 90’s.

Joe tours internationally featuring innovative formats in Long Form Improvisation including BASSPROV with Mark Sutton, (Annoyance Theater Co-Founding Member and Artistic Director for Training and Development at The Second City). They have been heralded by the NY TIMES: “BASSPROV refreshingly has the feel of a quiet character study…jokes emerge organically, using wordplay, character quirks and quicksilver wit.”

In the last year Joe toured Eastern Europe, teaching and headlining with Jill Bernard (Huge Improv Theater – Mpls.) in their hit Duo show SCRAM! He headlined with Chicago Improv Goddess Susan Messing in Messing With a Friend at the Miami Improv Festival, with Lee White (CRUMBS – Winnipeg) in their show PARADIGM in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland and Italy, with International Improv Legend Patti Stiles (AD – Impro Melbourne) in Paris and Rome with their show Our Play, with Israeli Powerhouse Inbal Lori in Brest, France with their show That Date and with David Razowsky (Host A.D.D. Comedy Podcast) in Razowsky & Bill at Wurzburg (Germany) Improtheaterfestival and at Improvention in Canberra, Australia.

Joe performs in The Del Tones, The Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience and Musical Armando at iO Chicago. He has played as a guest in The Scene and Chica GO-GO at The PIT in New York City, with Let’s Have A Ball and ASSSSCAT 3000 at UCB Theater in New York & L.A and with Kornfeld & Andrews at Magnet Theater in New York City.

He has performed, directed, taught and served as an Artistic Adviser for a number of Improvisation/Comedy Theaters & Festivals all over North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa and at every major Improv Festival in The United States.