Delicious Danny P Initiates a New Scene
It has been a long journey with LMA, firstly consulting to the school on creative matters, then kicking off the Melbourne School and ultimately moving to Sydney to take on the Artistic Director role.
How to Promote Your Damn Comedy Show
How to Promote Your Damn Comedy Show The word is out. The questions been asked. The knowledge has been requested. It’s on everyone’s lips. The people want to know. And this is knowledge they deserve to know. So they have asked – How the damn do I get people to show up at my damn [...]
LMA All Hands – October 2017 Re-Cap
LMA All Hands – October 2017 Re-Cap A big thank you to everyone who came to the LMA All Hands meetings in Melbourne and Sydney this month. For those of you who don't know, the All Hands is our chance to come together informally as a community and share news, ideas and dreams for the [...]
Talya Finberg Joins the LMA Teaching Roster
We are super excited to welcome Talya to the Teaching staff at LMA! Talya completed all four levels of improv training offered through Laugh Masters Academy (LMA) in 2016 and then whooshed through the LMA Teacher Training Track to land where she is today. She will be recognisable to many of you from her work [...]
Creating Community Through Comedy
Creating Community Through Comedy When I took my very first Level 1 Improv class at The Second City, I thought I was going to be awesome at it. In fact I distinctly recall telling a friend I was going to "rule improv." Somewhere around the middle of my second class I realised that by trying to [...]
A Disposable Life
A Disposable Life This week's post is by LMA Artistic Director Dan Pavatich One of the fundamental ideas behind Improv is that it is disposable, anything we create exists for a moment and then evaporates. The upside is that improvisers learn to believe in the power of creativity, and the moment. The downside can be that [...]
Improvising With Hippos
Improvising With Hippos Nikki-Anne Wilson is a PhD student based at the Brain and Mind Centre at The University of Sydney. Her research examines how imagination contributes to social behaviour, specifically, whether the inability to imagine may explain the loss of social skills in dementia. She is also an LMA student, a wannabe improv star [...]
How Do You Get Better At Improv?
How Do You Get Better At Improv? Our guest blog this week comes from Andy Balloch, LMA Melbourne’s School Coordinator and Producer who has studied at iO Chicago and The Improv Conspiracy, where he now coaches Levels 1 - 3. Andy regularly performs in ‘Us Plus One', is a member of the Deconstruction Ensemble (Laugh Master’s [...]
Fast-thinking. Creativity. Bravery… and Improv.
Fast-thinking. Creativity. Bravery... and Improv. Guest Blog by Oliver Shawyer I recently returned from holidays, and in doing so, set myself an aggressive task of getting out and about to try new things. Things that both confronted me and reminded me of how much there is on offer when you actually put yourself out there. There's [...]
On The Right Track
On The Right Track Carolyn Mullen is an LMA Student and an actor based in Sydney. Her passion for performing started at age 4. Since then she has studied at various schools including the Ensemble Studios under Zika Nester OAM, Actors Centre, NIDA, Theatre Sports and Macquarie University and has worked in theatre, film and [...]