This event has passed! I’ll be performing with my Level 3 cohort at Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s Eris in our class show on April 20 at 8:30 pm! We’ll be downstairs in the Deep Space room. In this Advanced Scenes class, our instructor Philip Markle has presented improv techniques and awareness-building tools to create more grounded and authentic characters...
I am so excited to announce that I have accepted a role as a writer with the Bitter Maiden Writing Collective. I was delighted to meet Creative Director Lilly Mannon and Director Nathan Flower through a series of interviews and writing submissions and hear about their vision and intention behind the Bitter Maiden’s upcoming project. In the coming months, I look...
This event has passed! I’ll be performing with my Level 1 cohort Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s Pig Pen in our class show on December 16 at 8:30 pm! Over the past six weeks, we’ve been learning how to “give gifts,” embody emotions, concoct scenes using suggestions and physicality, and tap into our ability to play. I’ve had a blast...
My sister and I kicked off the Halloween season last night with Death Becomes Her (1992) starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn. Rotten Tomatoes has got this film all wrong, awarding it a measly 55%. Ignore that. This is one of the silliest, and surprisingly thought-provoking, movies I have seen in a long time. I’ll give a few details: actress...
Every Saturday this summer, I had the honor of performing with a very talented group of performers through Sacramento Comedy Spot’s Musical Improv class. I had never taken an improv class before and hadn’t sang in front of an audience in over a decade. But over six weeks, I grew to trust in these creative and open-minded strangers who were so laid-back (even as I...
This event has passed! Check out my blog for the videos: Red Panda & Trash Panda A culmination of the Musical Improv class at the Sacramento Comedy Spot. That’s right! I’m going to be singing! Next week my classmates and I will be performing a mini-musical showcasing all of the skills that we have learned over the past six weeks. Every Saturday we...
This event has passed! The Earth Systems Senior Capstone offers students the chance to undertake passion projects that encapsulate their experiences in the major. The requirement is meant to lead to the senior’s next step in their learning and lives post-Stanford I’ve come across climate humor that is dreary, hopeless, awkward and dark. Such feelings are valid and...