Performing: Tue, July 2 at Ask Me Storytelling
Hey! Come see me at Ask Me Stories on Tue 7/2. I’ll be sharing the stage with some very talented people! Get all the details here.
Category: Performance
Lessons in Performance
It was a mediocre performance. I didn’t feel good about it. Having people come up afterwards and say, “That was great!” just made it worse. I know that I am unusually hard on myself. But I also know when I’ve done well vs. badly.
“Is there a ‘fun’ part?”
It’s never too late to live.
Comedy Terror
Last month I managed to convince a roomful of people that I’m a standup comedian. Here’s the evidence.
Writing for stand-up comedy: what I’ve learned so far
I’ve long wanted to try stand-up. Meaning longer than some of you have been alive. I finally took the plunge and have for the past month been going to a windowless room in the Garment District for three hours on Saturday, where I tell my carefully crafted “bits” (collections of…
Performing is like…
“Performing is like trying to hold a half-wild animal, one that desperately wants to love and trust you, yet also fears you in some primitive way.”
Lessons in Performance
It was a mediocre performance. I didn’t feel good about it. Having people come up afterwards and say, “That was great!” just made it worse. I know that I am unusually hard on myself. But I also know when I’ve done well vs. badly.
“Is there a ‘fun’ part?”
It’s never too late to live.
Comedy Terror
Last month I managed to convince a roomful of people that I’m a standup comedian. Here’s the evidence.
Writing for stand-up comedy: what I’ve learned so far
I’ve long wanted to try stand-up. Meaning longer than some of you have been alive. I finally took the plunge and have for the past month been going to a windowless room in the Garment District for three hours on Saturday, where I tell my carefully crafted “bits” (collections of…
Performing is like…
“Performing is like trying to hold a half-wild animal, one that desperately wants to love and trust you, yet also fears you in some primitive way.”