Fernando's Improv Blog
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Fernando's Improv believes that Improv life is my life. The blog provides articles on shows, theatre & spaces, teams, events, and more on topics like hosting the Latinx quiz show red door is the world's best improv team, and others!
Fernando's Improv Blog
8M ago
Synchronicity The Improv Life: My 80th Show of 2023 I can’t believe it’s been 2 weeks since my 80th show of the year! And here’s what made it so special – it was the 8th Duo It Again on the 8th day of the 8th month of the year! What do you call that? I ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
The Best Week of My Life Just did 6 shows in 6 days! And I booked 66 performers too! And I performed at 4 amazing LA Theaters: The Lyric Hyperion, The Glendale Room, UCB, and The Pack Theater! I did 3 improv shows, 1 bit show, 1 game show, and 1 sketch show! This was ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Goodbye Cuñados I’m waving good bye to the Latinx Panel Show! Every single Cuñados, Cuñadas, y Carnales we ever put up was a blast. We proved the concept over and over again: get Latinx comics and artists to play trivia games and everyone will have fun, including the audience. Latinx content from Latinx creators is ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Having fun, That’s The Process The Improv Life: Process > Product Well we might have had the best Fernando Funes’ Long Form & Short Form Supreme on Thursday! I’m not trying to exaggerate or anything. It’s just that the energy was electric that night. It’s as if we were all in synch with each other ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Love This New Ensemble Just when I think I’m done with narrative improv, it pulls me back in. Angel City Improv had an amazing show on Saturday for Our Welcome To The Vantage Point run at Company of Angels hq in Boyle Heights. We got to do a show filled with fun characters, bits, and ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Piñata Party This Friday, Match 17 at The Ledge Theatre LA is Latin America, y’all. Ain’t no ifs and or buts about it! So once a month I gather my favorite Latinx comics and put up a banger of a show – The Piñata Party! (Because you know piñtas are filled with goodies?) Every 3rd ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Good Times with Nuisance Well Nuisance had another banger show on Sunday along with Mind Reader at the Pack Theater! It’s been a while since I’ve been on a team that consistently practices the same form over and over, so I’ve forgotten how fun it is to have a form in your bones. What I’m ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Here’s a Poem I Wrote In Honor of Red Door for My Poem A Day Project Poem 44 The secret of the mastersIs that they play with great joy If you want to beA brooding, self loathing artisanWhose sense of self importanceIs crucial to your workCool! That’s not for meI want to see peopleHaving fun ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Send In The Clowns Was So Much Fun! I got to play a heel English teacher with my friend Ian Farley for Natasha Mercado’s Send In The Clowns! I don’t like being a bad guy in real life, but damn if I’m not good at playing one on stage. I played a nasty heel who ..read more
Fernando's Improv Blog
1y ago
Duo It Again is Coming Back to The Lyric Hyperion on Sunday, February 19th! Happy to announce the return of Duo It Again! And I’m going to need duos! Last time was a bonkers experience that resulted in one of the wildest, most inventive, most soul invigorating nights of improv I have ever participated in ..read more