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Both episodes of Amey Goerlich’s Improv Autopsy are out now! In them you’ll find lots of improv tales from UCB days, E-mprov online, out in LA at Westside Comedy, and at Amey’s current home and creative base, Chaos Bloom Theater in Denver.

Other topics include directing improv, structuring improv education and producing shows, handling issues as co-owner and Training Center Director, being a woman in a position of authority, and tons more.

Here’s a link to episode one or catch it wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/ImprovAutopsy/posts/170628126

Links to more Amey:

https://chaosbloom.com/instructors/amey-goerlich

https://ucbcomedy.com/people/amey-goerlich/

https://boldjourney.com/meet-amey-goerlich/

https://voyagedenver.com/interview/meet-amey-goerlich-of-70-s-broadway-denver-co/

PS if anyone has video of Amey as her Mayor character we’d love to see it.

Both episodes of Paul Grondy’s Improv Autopsy are out now. If you catch this post sooner rather than later you can go see Paul playing with Kevin Mullaney at the Omaha Comedy Fest tonight and both are teaching workshops over the weekend. If you’re in Omaha, you can’t miss that kind of programming.

On the reg you can catch Paul at the Home Comedy Theater in Chicago teaching and performing. Paul has a wealth of knowledge at his disposal, his skills are evident, and his aim to preserve the moves and theatricality of improv really can’t be beat. If you don’t know Paul already, please get to know him.

Here’s some links for Paul:

https://homecomedytheater.com/classes/paul-grondy/

https://jimmycarrane.com/96-paul-grondy/

Episode 1 link on the Patreon or listen to the episodes wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/ImprovAutopsy/posts/168984091

Who is more qualified to create and tour an Improvised X-Files show than the guy who was actually on it? Both parts of Improv Autopsy with Dean Haglund are out now, best known to nerd fans everywhere as Langly of the X-Files and Lone Gunmen series.

Dean talks of his time at Vancouver Theatresports, doing improv for drunk oil riggers in remote areas, and navigating audience interactions with a solo improv show. Plus lots more! Come take a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Link to part one on the free Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ImprovAutopsy/posts/166931697

Link to more of Dean: https://deanandphil.substack.com/

If you’re hanging around the Seattle area you probably already know the masterful musical director Alex Engleberg— or perhaps you’ve encountered him out in the wild at a festival. Alex brings an extensive musical knowledge to improvising behind the keys/guitar/drums/accordion/any other instrument he can get near and on Improv Autopsy he shares his love for the art as well as how he tackles situations in a show, like a genre he might not know that well (which at the time of this taping was Tennessee Williams.)

Alex’s interview on Improv Autopsy is available wherever you get your podcasts, but here’s a link to the free Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/ImprovAutopsy/posts/alex-engleberg-1-164983227

Link to Alex: https://beacons.ai/alexengelberg

For other musical improvisation to cross reference see episodes with music director John Hilsen out of Minneapolis and of Colin Mochrie’s HYPROV tour, or if you want a breakdown on the singing side of musical improv hit up the Joe Whyte episodes for background on the groundbreaking LA group the Impromptones.

Two Adam interviews in a row! Both parts of Adam Bellas’s Improv Autopsy interview are out now, you may have encountered him in Orlando as part of SAK Comedy Lab or the indie group Six Degrees.

Adam has stories of playing at Cons, doing some ill-advised improv in a bowling alley, the traps of “tourist-prov” and how to handle being called Jesus in scenes when you’re just a guy with long hair.

Improv Autopsy is available wherever you get your podcasts, but here’s a link to the free Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/158460238

And here’s Adam’s current project History Bluffs, catch it live if you’re in the Orlando area: https://www.facebook.com/historybluffers/

If you’ve seen Adam Scharf do improv, whether that’s at a festival where he’s suddenly competing without a teammate, at SAK Comedy Lab as part of the ensemble, or even by the side of a resort pool—you’d instantly see the value in the unique style of play he brings to the stage that audiences fall in love with, unless you’re the guy in the coffee shop that told him not to quit his day job.

Improv Autopsy is available wherever you get your podcasts!

Link to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157908496

More Adam: https://linktr.ee/Adamscharf

Both parts of Phil Lusardi’s Improv Autopsy are out now, Phil’s a co-creator and performer of the long-running Irish interactive comedy Flanagan’s Wake, was a member of Corky’s Callback at ImprovOlympic, and did stints at LA Connection, Brave New Workshop, the Improv Institute, Disney Cruise Line, etc, etc.

Come for some early Chicago stuff with Del, the challenges of getting Macarena as a song suggestion every night, and yet another future improviser tale of getting fired from reading school announcements.

Available wherever you get you podcasts but here’s the Patreon link to ep 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156595041

And here’s a link to Phil’s Substack for more improv tales and life lessons: https://phillusardi.substack.com

Bonus Jimmy Carrane’s mention of Phil and his blog: https://jimmycarrane.com/what-del-close-said-about-playing-to-the-top-of-your-intelligence/