2010

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Drew’s Best Of 2010

Here it is, the much anticipated “Drew’s Best of 2010.”  If you’re super excited about my best of (or bored with everything else), you can check out previous best ofs. Best Achievement – Perform Improv 53 Times In 2007, 2008 and 2009, I gave myself 10 goals at the beginning of the year to accomplish.  […]

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My Best Tweets of 2010

I tweeted a lot in 2010 (roughly 570 times).  There were a lot of bad ones.  Luckily there were also some I really enjoyed.  Repeated here for your groaning pleasure are my “best” tweets of 2010: Best Jokes My tailor asked if I needed help trying on a tux. I said “No.” He said “fine,

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Magnet Improv Level 5 Class Notes

Instructor: Armando DiazDate Taken: October 2010 Level 5 at the Magnet focuses on creating an improv revue—four shows that your team does together. I went back to my normal heavy note-taking ways for this class, but can you blame me? It was Armando Diaz teaching! To learn more about the Magnet training program, go here. Class

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Blaine Swen Workshop Notes

Instructor: Blaine SwenDate Taken: August 2010 For DCM 2010, Blaine Swen (founder / performer of Improv Shakespeare and 1-man musical improv show Bash!) offered a 3-hour workshop that focused on 1-person musical improv scenes. Here are the notes from the workshop. Class Notes 3 important points of improv: pov, dialog and emotional dialog come out

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Advanced Spacework Workshop Notes

Instructor: Dave Jadico (CSz Philadelphia)Date Taken: July 2010 Every year, ComedySportz has a tournament where all of the city teams get together to play, take workshops and hang out. This workshop was part of ComedySportz Tournament 2010 and covers spacework, for both shortform and longform improv. Workshop Notes Every time you touch an object, the audience has a

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Magnet Improv Level 4 Class Notes

Instructor: Alex MarinoDate Taken: May 2010 With Level 4, I continued my focus on experiential learning and just trying to incorporate what I heard as opposed to logically thinking about.  Our particular class was about the Evente, which lends itself to creating better improvisers for any form. I also learned more from the 4 performances

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25 Lessons from 25 Years

February 11, 1984–a day that will live in infamy… at least for me. It was the day I was born; a day that would change my life forever. I don’t remember much about the day, or anything actually, but to be fair I didn’t even have a fully formed skull yet. Still, the day is

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Magnet Improv Level 3 Class Notes

Instructor: Peter McNierneyDate Taken: March 2010 As I continued further into the Magnet program, I decided to try to learn more experientially (rather than logically), so I took fewer notes and focused on how I was feeling in scenes—what worked / what didn’t.  Still there were some notes that were too good to not write

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Within Shoot in 2010

I found these notes when cleaning up my computer. I never quite finished them, but it’s still an interesting look back at our process shooting “Within.” ———————————- Day 1 – Car Ride + First Night of Shooting (08-Mar-2010) The Within shooting trip started early Monday morning with a 3am wake-up call to pack the car

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