Special Guests Joe Bill and Mark Meer join Jerome at the table to nerd out over acting, improv, and D & D.
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Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Improvisation in America today. He is one of the founding members of Annoyance Theater Chicago, was the Director of Corporate Training at iO Chicago for 15 years, and a Teacher & Guest Artist in Residence at The Second City Conservatory & Training Center for another 15 years. Joe first practiced improvisation in 1977 and studied and worked with Del Close from 1985 through the mid 90’s. Joe has trained corporate clients in more than 80 Fortune 500 companies. Clients include NBC Universal, Disney, PepsiCo, Abbott Labs, Abbvie, GE, Leo Burnett, American Express, the CIA, and the Children's Miracle Network. He has taught in the Business Schools of the University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Duke, and The University of Virginia. Joe has also been touring internationally as an improvisational performer, teacher, and director for more than 20 years.
Mark Meer is known worldwide as the voice of Commander Shepard in Bioware’s Mass Effect Trilogy, and also voices several other characters in the series, including Blasto, the entire Vorcha species, and Niftu Cal. He plays multiple roles throughout Bioware’s Dragon Age series, and appears dozens of characters in the original Baldur’s Gate games, Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition, and Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. Mark stars as pilot William MacKenzie in the post-acopalyptic survival game The Long Dark by Hinterland Studio. Other voice work includes Bioware’s Jade Empire, Blue Wizard Digital’s Slayaway Camp, rom-com visual novel Arcade Spirits, ChaosForge's Jupiter Hell, and Chapterhouse Studio’s Captain Canuck: The Prometheus Protocol. Mark is a co-creator, writer, and star of the award-winning TV series Tiny Plastic Men, available on Amazon Prime in Canada, the U.S.A., and the U.K.
Links From our Discussion
Joe Bill - https://www.integratedimprovisation.com/
Mark Meer - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035752/
Dad’s Garage Theatre Company (Atlanta) https://www.dadsgarage.com/
Viola Spolin https://www.violaspolin.org/
D&D in a Castle: https://dndinacastle.com/home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassprov
https://www.freeplay.com/
Black Dice Society: https://dnd.wizards.com/black-dice-society
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