Are You Grabbing Your Audience or Inviting Them?
Why are we in such a hurry to be entertained? These past few weeks I've been doing stand up comedy a few nights a week and one of the...
What Stand Up Comedy Taught Me About Preparation and Performance
OMG I did it! It’s something I’ve always wanted to try: Stand up comedy. And this week I dove head first into this world and told jokes...
The First Step to End Spiraling Self-Doubt
Do you know what is worse than flop sweating or a racing heartbeat? The stories we make up about them. When we go into panic mode...
10 Reason to Take Your Performance Into Public Spaces
Have you ever wanted to try street performing? It's pretty amazing when it's done well, don't you think? Have you ever been going...
10 Different Types of Street Performers
Street performing acts are as vast and varied as the imaginations of the artists who create them. And with the explosion of the internet...
Do they love you or your stage persona?
Have you ever been with someone and got the sense that they were in love with your stage persona and not the "real" you? You don't have...
Disrupt In Order to Create
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative. . . -...
How to Be Vulnerable Onstage without Losing Your Shit Completely
One of the things that I look for, and what I think makes live performing arts so thrilling, is the element of risk. I want to see some dar
