The Weird Sisters (and Brothers)

I've always felt like a little bit of a weirdo. It was a struggle to find people who could deal with my particular brand of weirdness. When I started doing improv, I realized I'd found people who would never let some obscure reference go uncelebrated. People who were amazingly intelligent but decidedly not boring. People who could quote Shakespeare in one sentence and rattle off a series of fart jokes in the next (if they quote the right plays they won't even need two sentences!). I had found my clan. 

For a while I just believed I found a lucky group of people in the Nashville Improv Company (I did, but that's beside the point) and that surely this magical kind of human didn't exist anywhere else in the world. Then as I went to festivals and took workshops and met people who have made improv their lives, I started to think that improvisation just attracted tons of awesome weirdos.

But now I look at some of the students I've taught and how far they've come and I know that some of us have weirdness jn our nature, but all of us have spent time nurturing that special kind of silliness that your can only find in an improviser. Nothing is ever too strange for us. The porridge will never be too hot or too cold, it's always just right. It's not just acceptable to be weird as an improviser, it's highly prized and strived for. I'm exceptionally proud to have found so many brothers and sisters in weirdness and I can't wait to convert even more people to our ridiculous religion.