Take a flying leap!

Last night I was teaching my level one improv class (such a fun group!) and we were talking about boldness in choice making and the difference it makes. I asked them to be bold in a silly clapping game we were playing. Suddenly, the game became more energized, committed, slightly dangerous and laugh out loud fun! The layering of boldness into what we do seems to affect the outcome. No longer are we meek and waiting, inactive, but rather intentional and specific and ok with it all. And the world supports that. It's reflected in its response.

Be bold about something today. Be intentional and commited about it. See the difference.

New Year! New Post! (at last...)

Happy New Year! a time of rebirth, recharging and reinventing!
The slate is clean; the possibilities, endless.

Every improv scene starts that way: clean fresh, full of possibilities. The more specific and detailed you become in the scene, the more of a reality the scene becomes, the more grounded in truth it becomes. The more interesting it becomes. Thats the joy. Start with nothing, get everything. Same in life.

Have a joyful 2008! I hope you get everything out of it.

WHO IS KIM????

KIM SCHULTZ is a very funny lady who radiates big gamma rays of joy! Originally, a Minnesota girl, Kim is a multi-talented performing artist: She is a gifted actress, a brilliant teacher, a quirky writer, a skilled producer and a knockyouover funny improvisor and stand-up comic. Plus she sings! Kim is grounded and real, while also being silly and over the top fun. Her passion for comedy is contagious and her generosity of spirit is a gift to everyone in her orbit! Kim is definitely someone to watch!

Writing your life

I have been writing a lot lately. Writing this one person show. Telling my stories, incorporating my standup, improvising the whole while. I think the success I have found in writing is due to my ability to say yes to my impulses without judgement and to my ability to squelch the voices in my head that say I can't. If I don't follow impulses and instinct, I become inactive, thinking, worrying and unable to move. And if I can't quiet the voices (kkkill kkkill kkkilll herherherherher) , I can't trust myself enough to do it. Then done. Inaction.

Staying in action keeps our life moving. Staying in action keeps things happening. Improv teaches us this.

Erin Keating, teacher extraordinaire, www.prototypeworkshops.com, makes us write 10 minutes every day. It's nothing, but it keeps us in action. And it's enough.

New classes!

New classes starting!

8 week sessions

MONDAYS start October 29, 630pm

& SATURDAYS start November 10 3pm

8 weeks/$225

ALSO...

ONE DAY IMPROV INTENSIVE

THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 1-5pm

$40

Email me for more info and to register

Audition bigger. Live bigger.

Play creates play; Energy creates energy

SOOO many instances in life about how you get what you put into something. If you bring energy, say, it usually begets energy. It is contagious. the room and the individuals in it are affected. Same with play, if you bring a sense of play to what you are doing, play is created. It's really wonderful and simple. If you bring attitude and judgement, the same is created. Lesson? Bring what you want. Live it. In a truthful way.

Last night was an amazing HAPPY HOUR show! Such talent and fun. And SUCH great energy and play in the room. Lesson learned.

Oh, and...my graduate students of improv are performing this Sunday @ 7pm at a new venue I have: SAGE Theatre in Midtown Manhattan. No drink minimum!! woohoo!


They're SO talented and funny. Hope you can come!

HAPPY HOUR TIME!

Comedy. Variety. Oh my!
Kim Schultz's Happy Hour
where comedy is Absolute...

Sunday October 7, 7pm
@
Ha! Comedy Club
163 West 46th Street. Times Square.
$8/2 reasonably priced drinks. Makes you happier.

http://www.myspace.com/kimschultzhappyhour

Reservations are encouraged. Email me.

Hope to see you SUNDAY!!!