I just did 6 shows in 6 days!

The Best Week of My Life

Just did 6 shows in 6 days!

And I booked 66 performers too!

And I performed at 4 amazing LA Theaters: The Lyric Hyperion, The Glendale Room, UCB, and The Pack Theater!

I did 3 improv shows, 1 bit show, 1 game show, and 1 sketch show!

This was probably the biggest week I’ve ever had as a performer.

Of all the hats I wear, that’s the one I wear the easiest.

The shows were good – I mean like they were fire good!!! – but hanging out with so many of my amazing peers from across different LA communities was probably the thing I’ll remember the most.

Plus, I got to hangout with Kristen Gull all week, which was a gift.

My life has been filled with extreme highs and lows as of late, but it felt good to have an amazing week like this past one, s week that was unlike anything I’ve ever done. Thank you to everyone who made this possible.

#improv #duoitagain
#theduplex #menudo #bithole #cuñadoscuñadasycarnales
#moonshotcomedy #lyrichyperion #theglendaleroom #ucb #packtheater

Shows 47-52

Another Amazing Show at Company of Angels!

Love This New Ensemble

Just when I think I’m done with narrative improv, it pulls me back in.

Angel City Improv had an amazing show on Saturday for Our Welcome To The Vantage Point run at Company of Angels hq in Boyle Heights.

We got to do a show filled with fun characters, bits, and not so nuanced social commentary. The plot was moved from the steam created by the characters, a more organic way to move a story, with the right plot moves here and there to keep the whole thing on schedule.

I got to play with one of my improv mentors (and LA goats) Sean Michael Boozer, which is always a joy. He’s been doing a great job as our director, so playing with him was a special treat and surprise for me.

And this new ensemble is coming along! Nothing will bring a team together like doing shows!

We got two more weekends of shows, so come check it out! I got comps too if you need them!

What you love will love you back in ways you can’t imagine.

#improv #coa #companyofangels #angelcityimprov #boyleheights #theater #bipoc #bipoctheater

Show 38 of 2023

My Poem About Being a POC in Improv and Sketch

I’m Glad I Wrote This

I was hesitant to write this poem because I don’t want to write controversial things that may make people in my feed uncomfortable, but every time I tried to write a different poem yesterday for my poem a day project, I couldn’t. And I think that’s because this poem was waiting to come out.

When you’re a writer, there are certain things in you that are already fully formed but just need a push to get fully formed and delivered.

I’ve been thinking about these things lately because the old is new again, and when you think something is in the past — old foes, trauma, ways you were wronged and taken advantage of, people you couldn’t help but wanted to — it’s just lurking and waiting to seize you in a heightened manner with underlying themes revealing new depths and layers. It’s not that your done with a thing; it’s that a thing has new levels that need to be explored and dealt with.

So I wrote this poem about being a POC in improv and sketch. That first line came to me while journaling, and then the rest just kinda fell into place like a pyramid that is built brick by brick. When David Escobedo asked me if he could turn this post into a graphic for The Improv Boost, I was honored, so I said, “Yes.”

To think I almost didn’t write this poem, but that I had to because there was no other way to stay true to my Poem-A-Day Project and Promise: to write a poem for every single day of the year. I support and encourage all diverse voices out there to create the comedy they want to see, to create art where they see themselves reflected, and to find those spaces — and if they don’t exist, to create them — where their voices can fly free with nothing holding them down. 

Here’s the original poem – https://thesisyphuslife.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/poem-24-for-2023/

#improv #sketch #comedy #poc #bipoc #diversity #inclusivity #boostimprov