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judgment | Thank You, Red Ball!

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Thank You, Red Ball! In a jam or workshop, a good general rule is to assume every player in the room is an artist, a poet, a genius. In this lovely ideal world, jumping into a scene with Stranger A is just as safe and potentially awesome as jumping into a scene with Stranger B. But that’s not how it often works. Often, after the first round of scenes in a workshop full of strangers, I catch myself on the sidelines doing some mental math about how best to avoid being in a scene with that one guy. That Tou...

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The Improv Retreat | Thank You, Red Ball!

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Thank You, Red Ball! Tag Archives: The Improv Retreat. Fireball Theory with Jill Bernard. I signed up for Fireball Theory because Jill Bernard. Was teaching it, and I continue to use exercises and my notes from the workshop I took from her last year. What was Fireball Theory? No clue, but if Jill’s teaching it, I’ll give it a shot. The most useful/easy-to-pass-on exercise was Mad/Sad/Glad/Afra(i)d, my favorite variation of an exercise I’ve done before in other classes. One person enters the sce...Even th...

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Packing for TIR 2015 WOOOOOO!!!!! | Thank You, Red Ball!

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Thank You, Red Ball! Packing for TIR 2015 WOOOOOO! If you want to know what it was like last year, I summed up the workshops I took, the Q&A session, and my general experience of TIR2014 here. I’ve agonized over and finally signed up for my workshops. Found a carpool buddy. And let my workplace know that I won’t be answering my phone or email over that weekend. Last year, I was glad I brought:. Bedding (pillow and sleeping bag). Shoes (comfortable walking shoes, flip flops for the shower). By the time my...

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TIR2015 | Thank You, Red Ball!

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Thank You, Red Ball! Fireball Theory with Jill Bernard. I signed up for Fireball Theory because Jill Bernard. Was teaching it, and I continue to use exercises and my notes from the workshop I took from her last year. What was Fireball Theory? No clue, but if Jill’s teaching it, I’ll give it a shot. The most useful/easy-to-pass-on exercise was Mad/Sad/Glad/Afra(i)d, my favorite variation of an exercise I’ve done before in other classes. One person enters the scene with a simple line (“It&#...Even though a...

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Choose the odd.: December 2012

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Saturday, December 1, 2012. How to dry your own herbs in 5 easy steps. 1 Buy a pot of fresh herbs. I got my pot of sage, rosemary, and thyme from Trader Joe's before Thanksgiving. You'll be more inclined to complete this essential step if you let the nice Trader Joe's lady trick you into thinking of yourself as the kind of person who is likely to make herbed cornbread dressing from scratch. 2 Guard your potted herbs from all natural sunlight. Just because it's night in this picture doesn't mean. Do Hard ...

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Choose the odd.: Hist'ryonic

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012. I picked up Alice Hoffman's. Because I visited Masada. Last fall. The novel is historical fiction following the stories of four Jewish women, where they came from, and what led them to the fortress. Also, I found the cover to be striking. Here's the thing: I should not be two thirds of the way through a book about Jews at Masada and think, "Finally! The Romans are here! But that is what I thought, and here is why:. 3 The narrators are smart, independent, sexually liberated women w...

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Choose the odd.: Wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored ...

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Friday, March 23, 2012. Wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored . This is me, rehearsing being formless and void. Steve. Took the picture. He is also livestock in the video below. This will be my 7th Easter at Church of the Resurrection. Even though we read the same 9 Old Testament passages year after year, they always feel fresh, thanks to artists who are committed to treating the Word of the Lord with the creativity and respect it deserves. From Church of the Resurrection. 8220;O God, wh...

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Choose the odd.: Basically famous.

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Thursday, May 24, 2012. This is NOT the kind of dinosaur pajamas I was wearing. Mine were just regular pajamas with dinosaurs on them. I subscribe to a handful of podcasts, though I don't usually listen to them right away. A queue of them builds up until I have a good chunk of data entry to do at work, or some particularly tedious chore around the house. So it wasn't until a couple of weeks after it aired that I found out I had been quoted on CBC's WireTap. Which gets rebroadcast on NPR. My first memory ...

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Choose the odd.: Thank You, Red Ball!

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Saturday, July 28, 2012. Thank You, Red Ball! Over the past several years, I've found that most of what I write ends up being about improv somehow. No matter what I sit down to write about, I use improv vocabulary to help me understand it. So I've started writing about improv at a new blog called Thank You, Red Ball! The name of the blog is from my favorite improv warm-up. Which is all about cultivating gratitude. Regardless, I have thus far written about:. How much I like cake. How not to be a good team.

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Choose the odd.: January 2012

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Monday, January 30, 2012. How to Cook in Your Sleep. I often stay up too late at night to read, but I've lately surprised myself, violating my bedtime by reading a cookbook. The difference between a standard cookbook and An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace. By Tamar Adler is the difference between, say, King Lear. And The Actor and the Text. She makes the food complicit in the way it's being eaten. So you don't say, "What do I want to eat? To be vinegar-y chips.). Here is a video she made...