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Standing By

It's been a busy year. How did a whole year go by without keeping up with this improv blog?

Maybe it's because I've been writing on other blogs, traveling around the country, doing short films, and acting in a couple of plays. Yeah, let's go with that.

If you are interested in attending an improv workshop in the Boulder - Longmont - Lafayette - Louisville area of Colorado let me know. We tend to do those workshops whenever we have enough people interested.

Maybe someday I'll schedule weekly sessions that are open to drop-in playing. For now, as other theater companies have no doubt discovered, space is the problem. Finding the space. So if you also know a spot that would be conducive to improv games and activities, that would be affordable, and is available - let me know. We'd love to play.

-- Doug Smith


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