Lorelei Vashti

Lorelei (PICTURED AT LEFT) heard about the Improv Conspiracy in July 2013, and within two weeks had hurtled through the Level 1 and 2 intensives. By the time she got to level 3 she had been doing improv for less than a month and was, frankly, terrified. She continues to be terrified every time she steps on stage, but for some reason she keeps doing it. 

In her other life, Lorelei is a writer and book editor. She was a weekly TV columnist for The Age’s Green Guide in 2010 and 2011, and has been published in various magazines including Marie Claire, frankie and Meanjin. She co-edited Luminous, the fiftieth anniversary publication of The Australian Ballet in 2012, and is currently writing a book based on her popular blog, Dress, Memory—a memoir of her twenties in dresses. It will be published by Allen & Unwin in 2014. She has chaired events at the Melbourne Writers Festival and National Young Writers Festival, and every month she can be found helping out at Women of Letters, an afternoon of literature and correspondence curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. She also runs Paper Trail Tours, a writing class on foot around Melbourne, with Sofija Stefanovic.