Greg Hudson grew up in a very safe, very rich suburb by Portland, Oregon. He fell in love with improv in Madison, Wisconsin whilst hungover on a Sunday morning and in desperate need of friends. He improvised with Atlas Improv Company there before moving to New York City to attend the Atlantic Acting School and the Magnet Theater training programs. He now improvises with the Exuberants. To see pretty pictures of Greg, go to greghudsonactor.com.
Inner Improv #2: Elly Silberstein, Pace University
“Improv comedy is a lot like trying to start a business. In both settings, you might have an idea of where you want to go, but you have to think on your feet and react in real time if you want to get there. You have to win over an audience and get them on your side.
In both settings, you’re probably going to meet with failure from time to time. But, in business just as with comedy, how you learn from those failures can be the difference between succeeding in the future and going through the same old motions you’ve always known.
Watch the video clip at the web address below as Entrepreneur Network partner Kate Volman and improv comedian Anthony Francis explain how you can use improv strategies when building your business.”
https://www.entrepreneur.com/video/298502
Charlotte Smart is an actor and playwright with a background primarily in Shakespeare and Commedia Dell’arte, skills she honed while earning her MA at the University of Chicago. Additionally, she tampered in Living History reenactment, an experience which helped shape and influence her first play, in early production now. She can only adopt an American Southern inflection as far as accents go, but can do a mean goat impression. This has proven a hit at both parties and the Central Park Petting Zoo.
In this audience participation game, the birthday girl from the audience, Natalie, gets commandeered in order to private the sound effects for our actors’ scene.
The Exuberants perform every Sunday at 6pm at The Broadway Comedy Club in New York City.
Http://exubs.com for tickets!
In this improvised romantic comedy, The Exuberants use their improv comedy training to create a film that resembles a typical Kate Hudson rom-com, about a high powered female fashion executive (Olya Grynko) who falls for a sweet but tortured New York MTA bus driver (Michael Springthorpe).
Inner Improv is a talk/improv video series where we explore the inner workings of improv comedy actors. Today’s guest is Rebecca Stuard of Improvolution NYC.
Ben Aaron is a New York City based actor, singer, comedian, voice actor, improviser and writer. He has studied improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade, acting at the Barrow Group, voice acting at Edge Studios, singing at Vocal Workout, and comedy at being an alcoholic. He has performed many wonderful auditions. You can see him performing regularly with the indie improv teams Commitment Issues Temporarily and the Authorities, as well as with the Complete Theatre Company. Follow him on Twitter @BenAaronComedy. For booking or compliments you can reach him at benaaroncomedy@gmail.com.
“Acting has gained a negative connotation over hundreds, if not thousands, of years for being, essentially, ‘lying.’ But just as startups wish to show how good business is not about greed or cheating, good acting is not about lying—in fact, good acting empowers you to put your best self forward.”
Read Kate’s article at: https://www.startupinstitute.com/blog/2016-08-11-benefits-of-improv-in-business
Olya Grynko is New York based actress, comedian and model, and we are thrilled to have her as part of The Exuberants. Her great sense of humor keeps us laughing all day. She appeared in many staged productions in New York , such as “ 12 Angry Women “ , “Nothing Serious” and most recent show “After the Wall “. She studied comedy improv at UCB . Olya has been with many teams performing long and short improv forms at Broadway Comedy Club, Producer’s Club and many others venues in town.
