Telling Ethically Responsible Stories on Technology with Lauren Goode | Ep. 007
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Designing Stories for Impact with Lisa Solomon | Ep. 005
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The Keys to Telling Stories Through Music with Max Cowan | Ep. 004
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Bringing Community Together Through Local News with Chris Smith | Ep. 003
This week I am joined on the podcast by Chris Smith. Chris Smith is a columnist at my hometown newspaper, The Press Democrat -- a paper which recently won the…
Producing Academy Award Winning Movies with Steve Starkey | Ep. 002
On this week’s episode I am joined by academy award winning movie producer, Steve Starkey. Starkey, who always teams up with director Robert Zemeckis, has produced films such as: Allied,…
Lisa Rowland and the Power of Improvisation | Ep. 001
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“When we’re playing really well together but we’re also creating characters and moments that make the audience gasp, that’s like… the best.”
Lisa Rowland is a professional theatrical improviser. She is a member of BATS Improv, Northern California’s most acclaimed and longest running improvisational theatre company, and in 2012, Lisa was voted Best Actor by the SF Bay Guardian’s Reader Poll. Off the stage, Lisa is a lecturer at Stanford University in the Theatre Department, teaching the same beginning improv class that put her on the path of improvisation.
In this conversation, the first episode of The Austin Meyer Podcast, Lisa and I discuss how she became a professional improviser, what it takes to captivate an audience when a story is being made up on the spot, and what other storytellers can learn from the spontaneity of theatrical improv.
