In July of 2006 I began training at The Upright
Citizens BrigadeTheater. My first teacher was Charlie Todd (CC+C Improv Factory, Reuben WIlliams, Cage Match, Improv Everywhere). He was an awesome teacher who taught the basics of improv .
My second teacher was Curtis Gwinn (Gemberling, Brighter Side, Nights of Our Lives, Death by Roo Roo). He was a stern teacher but he really made me see the games and improved my skills.
My third teacher was Shannon O'Neil (Mailer Daemon, fwand). She is awesome, she fired back at me when I brought my wisecracks. She taught us how to do a proper Harold and many types of openings.
Besides taking classes and workshops at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater; Brandon, Phlip, Vicki, Danny and I formed a group named Separated at Birth. The name came from VIcki and I having the
same birthdays. We perform at Improdome and Beyond Improdome at The PIT in NYC.
We won at Beyond Improdome Friday November 10th 2006. Then Phlip and I along
with Sam and Ern won the title again Monday March 5th 2007.
Satruday March 24th 2007 I performed with my workshop at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. It was a great show, Shannon is a great coach,
My fourth workshop was with Billy Merritt (Boiling Points, Stepfathers). He was an amazing coach with a great sense of humor. He has been performing improv for over 15 years and is currently on a new
show on CMT called Prankville. We had two shows with him as our couch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. The first show was on April 23rd 2007 and then we performed again on May 21st 2007.
I performed in the Del Close Marathon in the show UCBW Improvising and Taking Names...Again on July 28, 2007
I took a personalized workshop with Christina Gausus as my coach and another one with Anthony King before I left New York CIty. I
performed for New Team Harold on August 14 and September 18th 2007.
I am took several workshops in Los Angeles under Billy Merrit. The first two were a documentary form and I enjoyed them greatly.
We performed these on December 11th 2007, February 11th, 2007 and February 25, 2007.
Now I am studying a one-act play form and we will be performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles on April 6th,
2007 at 4:30PM and on May 4th at 6:30PM.