UCB IMPROV!

Okay, I'll be honest with you - this is a #stealthfie (AKA stealth selfie). I was trying not to seem too corny and weird to the receptionists at the UCB Training Center. But I really wanted to commemorate the occasion, because I took this right after my very first improv class at UCB!

Improv has long been basically my last true performance-related fear. I've done it before in projects, but for whatever reason I have always psyched myself out and convinced myself that it's not for me. It's maybe (definitely) something about the whole fear matrix I have around being good/right/seeming dumb. How can I be right if I step on the stage without knowing what's going to happen? How can I not seem stupid if I don't know what I'm doing? GUYS I AM NOTHING IF NOT SELF AWARE OKAY.

I had so many awesome improviser friends in college, and I loved going to their shows, but I distinctly remember watching them, thinking to myself "I could never do that."

Which, honestly, LOL. Because all my life, the second I start thinking that is the second my brain starts going, "You know what?...No. No. Well...HA!" like the woman in that meme when she tries kombucha for the first time.

This is all to say, basically, eff all that. Because I'm in improv classes at freakin' UCB now. Yep. That UCB. Which, I know paying to take a 101-level improv class at such an institution is not prestigious or anything, but man. That kinda feels big in itself! And I guess if you're in LA, you can come see me do bad improv in October!  But in the meantime, I'm enjoying healing bad patterns and being ridiculous while doing it, which is good enough for me!