During 2015, Improv Conspiracy member Mike Brown is going to have a chat to every single member of the Conspiracy - about life, about improv, and everything in between. This is: You're Going To Meet Some People.
Today, Mike chats with Simon McCulloch. Simon currently performs with Harold Night team Dirt Squad.
Mike Brown: I’m with Simon!
Simon McCulloch: Heyyyyyyyyy.
And I’ve got questions.
Shit.
So you got added to a Conspiracy [Harold Night] team at the start of 2014?
End of 2013.
End of 2013. So December.
Just after that reshuffle.
So you’ve been performing on a team for a year now?
Yeah exactly! The Foggy Windows thing was the start of December, didn’t do a show until January.
Since then you’ve done iO [Chicago training workshops] and now you’re on a new team who are called…
It’s Dirt Squad. I think it was just a joke name but it stuck.
What do you think of the name?
I love it, actually. It’s like any kind of name, it takes on its own thing after you get clumped into a group of people enough times and it’s just like – oh that, that team.
I know it’s very early on, but how are things in Dirt Squad compared to how things were in Foggy’s. Are they the same, are they different?
The things that remain the same…
You’re doing improv, that’s number one.
True.
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During 2015, Improv Conspiracy member Mike Brown is going to have a chat to every single member of the Conspiracy - about life, about improv, and everything in between. This is: You're Going To Meet Some People.
Today, Mike chats with Ryan Zorzut. Ryan currently performs with Harold Night team Endless Cash (this Wednesday, 7:30pm), and will be seen as part of the Improv Conspiracy Touring Company's production of Now Showing: The Improvised Movie during Perth's Fringe World festival in February.
What's your favourite thing about improvising?
I guess it's probably the community. It's like hanging out with people, making friends.
How long have you been in the Conspiracy for now?
It's been one year. One year in January.
How is your progress from the classes to now? You've been on a couple of different teams now, how have you got to know everyone here?
I've been with a few different groups of people. I think the amazing thing is how close you get to people you get straight away. As soon as you do a scene, you instantly have a relationship with them that's outside of improv. That's the amazing thing.
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