Improv 101: Say Yes and Other Fun Lessons
Improv comedy ... you can talk about how it builds confidence and the ability to think on one’s feet. You can laud team-building and listening skills. You can praise the way it generates new ideas. Or you can just admit that it's fun. This two-hour workshop is an energized, involved intro to improvisation (no watchers, only participants). It’s NOT political improv; you can politicize it on your own if you like. For these two hours, it’s just for fun.
Fred Gooltz is an online political strategy consultant with Drupal politech firm Advomatic LLC. Founded by Howard Dean alumni, Advomatic assists unions, progressive organizations and Democratic candidates ranging from city council to U.S. president. Fred is co-founder of Advomatic Laboratories. Before joining Advomatic, Gooltz was a political operative in traditional disciplines: director of communications, GOTV director and volunteer coordinator. Five years ago he starting using online social networks to do volunteer recruitment and coordination for organizations working on behalf of Kerry/Edwards. Subsequently with Advomatic, he's created innovative strategies for clients’ electoral races, issue advocacy and fundraising.
Justin Krebs is the co-founder and executive director of Living Liberally, which builds social communities around progressive politics. He is founder and artistic director of The Tank, a non-profit venue for performance and public affairs in New York. As a political organizer, advocate and entrepreneur, he has been a Working Assets Activist Fellow, manager of a parks advocacy campaign, author of a history of New York's playgrounds, and constituent liaison for Senator Clinton. Justin is a New Jersey native, graduate of Harvard University and resident of Hell's Kitchen. He's performed over 150 performances of his two-person improv show, ImproVision.
