Standup Comedy
How to Put On a Successful Comedy House Concert: Part 2
Part 1 of this blog introduces the idea of having a house concert for comedy. Here are the nuts and bolts. Here we go. Did you read Part 1?And check out Part 3! And Part 4!
Comedy
Dave Chappelle’s monologue on SNL
I’m a proud, “out” Jewish American comedian (out as a Jewish person). And I find myself confused after seeing Dave Chappelle’s monologue on Saturday Night Live. I loved the bits about Trump. But I’m talking specifically about the part of the set that deals with Kanye, Kyrie, and Jewish people. Read more…
Standup Comedy
How to Put On a Successful Comedy House Concert: Part 1
Sunday we did a private comedy house concert in a gorgeous home in Malibu. It was at a newly rebuilt home of some friends whose place burned down in the fires a couple years ago. My boyfriend learned several pre-show songs that I asked him to play and opened for Read more…
Comedy
Your Life is a Joke.
Your Life is a Joke. Allow me to elaborate. Have you noticed some people are always doing one thing so they can get to that next thing? Not necessarily cause they really love that first thing… Like if they can just do that one thing, it will make that next Read more…
Solo Performance & Storytelling
Escape 12 Traps of Creative Resistance, Turn Sabotage into Success, and Use Art for Awakening (1: FEAR YOU GOT NOTHIN’)
Having done standup comedy since college, I struggled for a long time to get the hang of writing, being on stage, and putting myself out there. I was inconsistent. I was self-sabotaging. I was often paralyzed with fantasies of grandiosity. I was so frustrated that I hadn’t “made it” yet. Read more…
Comedy
An hour of live comedy coaching with Alicia
Check out an exploration I did live with an actor named Leah, who’s never done comedy before, and see how we find our way toward the funny together.
Comedy
The Art of Creation: Don’t Believe the Voice of the Inner Critic
People will tell you things that are not helpful, for the sake of being helpful. Especially if you’re an artist, entrepreneur, activist, or person inspiring change… Sometimes they may even say it in the form of a question, so your answer appears to be your own, but your conclusion might Read more…
Solo Performance & Storytelling
Standup Comedy and Inner Confidence in the face of the Outer Critic
Sold out the first show tonight in Berkeley!!! And I have to say I felt SO GOOD on stage. I have to admit, it hasn’t always been that way. Sometimes, for years on end, as a performer, I had that need to get on stage – and yet simultaneously Read more…
Solo Show Coaching
5 Reasons NOT to Create a Solo Show (What?!)
5. It’s a pain in the butt. Solo shows are so much work. You gotta decide what you’re going to talk about. You gotta get over the fear of not being good enough. You gotta put in the time to write it. You gotta actually write it and not just Read more…
Comedy
How to Produce Your Solo Show, Part 10 [Memorize the Show, part 2]
Ok, here's the good news… finally! Turns out learning your lines is really not so hard after all! I started writing and performing one woman shows in the last six years, and all you have to do to learn your lines is put the time in. That’s really it. My Read more…