November 3rd, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Theater
I went to the theater yesterday in Baltimore to see a play I had high hopes for. About 15 minutes into the 1st act I was not having a good time and my mind started wandering and I could hardly pay attention to anything the actors were saying. I’ve never seen the play before so [...]
October 17th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG
BIG’s Halloween show is this Saturday. Join us for some great improv comedy! BIG troupes Uderhall and Plan B will be joined by MacCloskey & Myers (if you went to the festival this year, they opened up the 8:30 block on Friday night). Free popcorn if you wear a Halloween mask.
Details:
BIG Halloween Comedy Show
Saturday, Oct. [...]
September 7th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Improv
Mister Licorice and Safeword were accepted to the Philly Improv Festival! I’m very excited to be going as I heard great things from the Gus people that went last year, not to mention all the cool Philly Improv people I’ve met this year.
Mister Licorice also has two shows this weekend in Philly, one on Friday [...]
August 10th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Improv
All of the BIF2008 performances were taped and all will be availableon DVD eventually. For now, videos of four of the BIG troupes and Safeword have been posted on Google video:
Mister Licorice
Gus
Plan B
Mrs. Uderhall
Safeword
July 30th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Improv
Prescott and Bridget were on WYPR yesterday, doing some radio improv to promote the festival and yes, it was actually funny (radioprov is prone to disaster as I’ve learned this week). Listen here. Love the Bmore accent, hon.
And is it just me, or do people modulate their voices to fit the medium? I mean, people [...]
July 30th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Improv
The Baltimore daily B had BIG and the Baltimore Improv Festival as their cover story today, Inside Baltimore Improv Group:
Southern accents, a drinking-milkshakes-when-pregnant debate, a chore-wheel fight — it all was flowing out of a tiny room at Baltimore Independence School in Hampden last week. When the Baltimore Improv Group gets together to practice, things [...]
July 27th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Improv
Thanks to our awesome PR person (Heather), I get to pump the Baltimore Improv Festival all week on various local media outlets. I’ve done newspaper interviews before but these are my first radio and TV spots. Here’s my schedule:
Monday: 105.7 @ 8:40am
Tuesday: 98Rock @ 8:30am
Wednesday: FOX45 @ 8:30am, Mix 106.5 @ 10am
Saturday: WJZ @ 7am
In [...]
June 28th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Improv
I finished posting the show schedule and the workshop schedule for BIF 2008.
Shows are here. I’m performing with Mister Licorice and Safeword.
Workshops are here. I’m not teaching anything but I’ll probably take the Neutrino workshop; those guys are amazing.
May 16th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Twitter
When you have the overwhelming urge to tweet your personal life through your organization’s twitter-for-the-purpose-of-marketing account.
May 14th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in BIG, Social Media, Twitter
When you’re updating your Facebook status three times a day. Or when you think about it and you say “is this really worth a status update?”
I started twittering to market BIG, as an experiment. I did a search for everyone in Baltimore and followed them, hoping a few would follow me back. I’m up [...]