Post by Nancy Howland Walker on Mar 11, 2013 17:35:20 GMT -6
Hello, All!
Please let us know who you are, and where you're from (please include the country!)
You can let us know your experience with musical improv and improv in general, your group/show name, and what kind of musical improv you do. And anything else you want to share with us, within reason. (It IS a public board, ya know!)
I'm Nancy Howland Walker, currently living in Chicago, IL, USA. I'm the administrator of this board and author of "Instant Songwriting: Musical Improv from Dunce to Diva." Here's a short bio. (Sorry it's in third person - easier to cut and paste what I have...) If you want the long version, you can go to www.InstantSongwriting.com and go to the "about the author" page.
Nancy Howland Walker is a SAG/AFTRA actor, writer, teacher, and trainer. She has appeared in hundreds of commercials, videos and live industrials, and has been performing, teaching, directing, and producing improv since 1989. She has performed thousands of comedy shows for businesses, schools and theaters, and has led trainings for major corporations, including McDonalds, Oxford Instruments, and Amoco/BP, on creativity, team building, and communication.
Nancy's specialty is musical improv. She has performed short-form and long-form musical improv since 1990. She has sung short-form musical improv games with ImprovBoston, the International Improvisational Theater League, TheatreSports, Just For Laughs, and the Disney Cruise Line. Nancy has also sung in long-form improvised musicals with ImprovBoston and the Free Associates, and in 1998, Nancy created, produced, directed and performed in MUSICAL! the musical, the United States’ first completely improvised two act modern Broadway style musical. It was a critical success – The Chicago Tribune called it “quite remarkable,” the Sun Times called it improv’s “final frontier.”
Nancy has taught musical improv for professional and student improvisational groups, at schools from elementary level to collegiate, and festivals all over the world since 1993. Her classes are often packed and are always well-received. She is also co-host of the popular Zenprov podcast.
Your turn!
Please let us know who you are, and where you're from (please include the country!)
You can let us know your experience with musical improv and improv in general, your group/show name, and what kind of musical improv you do. And anything else you want to share with us, within reason. (It IS a public board, ya know!)
I'm Nancy Howland Walker, currently living in Chicago, IL, USA. I'm the administrator of this board and author of "Instant Songwriting: Musical Improv from Dunce to Diva." Here's a short bio. (Sorry it's in third person - easier to cut and paste what I have...) If you want the long version, you can go to www.InstantSongwriting.com and go to the "about the author" page.
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Nancy Howland Walker is a SAG/AFTRA actor, writer, teacher, and trainer. She has appeared in hundreds of commercials, videos and live industrials, and has been performing, teaching, directing, and producing improv since 1989. She has performed thousands of comedy shows for businesses, schools and theaters, and has led trainings for major corporations, including McDonalds, Oxford Instruments, and Amoco/BP, on creativity, team building, and communication.
Nancy's specialty is musical improv. She has performed short-form and long-form musical improv since 1990. She has sung short-form musical improv games with ImprovBoston, the International Improvisational Theater League, TheatreSports, Just For Laughs, and the Disney Cruise Line. Nancy has also sung in long-form improvised musicals with ImprovBoston and the Free Associates, and in 1998, Nancy created, produced, directed and performed in MUSICAL! the musical, the United States’ first completely improvised two act modern Broadway style musical. It was a critical success – The Chicago Tribune called it “quite remarkable,” the Sun Times called it improv’s “final frontier.”
Nancy has taught musical improv for professional and student improvisational groups, at schools from elementary level to collegiate, and festivals all over the world since 1993. Her classes are often packed and are always well-received. She is also co-host of the popular Zenprov podcast.
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Your turn!