6S, ep. 8: Professional mime, Becky Baumwoll, learns improv, live on the show.

This week we continue our summer project, 6S: Some Suggestions Sometimes Summer School Series. Each week this summer, on #NoSuggestionPod, we'll have on a performer, usually a comedian, with very little long-form improv experience. Me, and a few of past No Suggestion guests, all seasoned improv comedians, will give that guest a private improv class live on the show.

This week we have such a lively hour with mime, actor, educator, and founder of Broken Box Mime Theater (@brokenboxmime) and PhysFest NYC (@physfestnyc), Becky Baumwoll . Co-host Christopher Morucci (@christophermorucci), and guest co-host Shawn Wickens (@timetravelingstoned), and I, really enjoyed getting to know Becky, and chat with Becky about the origins of Broken Box Mime Company, how she landed in mime and acting from being an International Studies major, whether or not mimes are allowed to laugh or break in their performances, the internet trend of following endless spooky underground catacombs that may or may not be AI, and more!

We get through a lot of improv scenes, with Becky, who has only a little improv experience. It's really fun to track Becky's blossoming improv skills over this unruly, squirrelly hour. Christopher and Shawn really get to drop some cool gems about improv, and we get to learn something about how the art-forms of improv and mime might interact.

Broken Box Mime has been doing gorgeous, elegant, and often hilarious, physical storytelling and theater in this city for almost 15 years, under Becky's leadership. It is a real get to have her on the show, get to know her a bit, and to get to play with her. We hope you are as lit up and set abuzz by this unpredictable episode as we were!

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No Suggestion: An Improv Comedy Talk Show is broadcast LIVE on Radio Free Brooklyn (@radiofreebk) every Thursday night at 11pm.

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