Improv

Improv is collaborative by nature, uncertain, surprising – often delightful and sometimes profound. It has taught me values that I put into practice in my work and daily life. Click the images below to find out more about these values!

I enjoy teaching and performing improv. I was the Course Assistant for TAPS 103: Beginning Improvising taught by Dan Klein at Stanford, and I have taught workshops on professional team building, public speaking and storytelling across the Bay Area focusing on improvisational theater techniques that teach spontaneity, cooperation, team building, and rapid problem solving, emphasizing common sense, attention to reality and helping your partner. After graduating from Stanford and moving to Los Angeles I continued to study improv with the Upright Citizens Brigade. I have co-created hundreds of stories and characters, perform in shows ranging from short form scenes to fully improvised three act stage plays and musicals at dorms on campus to improv festivals, tournaments and independent shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. If you want to get a taste, I’ve includes recordings of some shows I did over the years with the Stanford Improvisors (SImps)!

Show Videos!

Two Stories at Once – Milk & The Firefighter's Daughter

From two audience suggestions at the beginning of the show we improvise two separate stories; switching back and forth between them as the show goes along.

Cast: Toni Adeyemi, Felipe Cabral, Tynan Challenor, Lianna Holston, Siena Streiber,and Jeffrey Chang (musical improviser)

Two Stories at Once – Venting Fever & Someone Walked Up the Stairs

From two audience suggestions at the beginning of the show we improvise two separate stories; switching back and forth between them as the show goes along.

Cast: Toni Adeyemi, Felipe Cabral, Megan Calfas, Tynan Challenor, Siena Streiber, and Joshua Kravitz (musical improviser)

Halloween Monoscene – Castle

From audience suggestions for a location we paint the stage and a spooky story ensues.

Cast: Deedee Anderson, Felipe Cabral, Will Gutzman, Lianna Holston, Siena Jeakle, Max Korman, Malaika Murphy-Sierra, Cameron Woods and Joshua Kravitz (musical improviser)

SImps City – Bus Stop

From an audience suggestion we build an environment and explore the people who inhabit it.

Cast: Deedee Anderson, Felipe Cabral, Megan Calfas, Tynan Challenor, Will Gutzman and Lea Zawada

Family Drama – Thanksgiving (a different one!)

A fully improvised three-act stage play about a family getting together for an occasion. This time: Thanksgiving!

Cast: Ian Anstee, Felipe Cabral, Tynan Challenor, Matt Herrero and Malaika Murphy-Sierra