Barbara Michaels's Page

Where do you live and work? (City)

New York

Professional Skills

Barbara & company are event participation experts. We custom-craft engaging themed characters-in-costume, interactive activities, and on-message theatrics that connect guests around your mission, making your event effective & memorable.

What is your main interest in this network?

Education, Social, Networking, Finding Partnerships, Improv Resources

What kind of person are you?

24-7

What kinds of improv-related services are you involved in?

Teambuilding, Creativity, Innovation, Character Development, Sales

Any niche industries, skills, etc?

Event Marketing, Corporate & Community Events, Living Brand Media, Developing Corporate Mascots for Events and Campaigns, Interactive Theatrics for Events

Share a favorite 'improv epiphany'

Across the country from our home base, we once were presented with a surprise hour and a half to create a fully costumed character, on-message, with a themed pitch for a trade show client. (We usually spend weeks creating & honing our characters!) We ran out the door, scouring area tourist boutiques on foot for suitable vibrant outfit pieces. 90 minutes later, we were in the van on the way to the show, applying make-up in the mirror and practicing our character's voice and talking points with the marketing director. We heard later that trade show attendees across the floor were asking each other if they had seen our character yet! Our client was delighted with the response from prospects we sent to his booth!

More about you: (Short Bio or any other details you'd like people to know)

Barbara Michaels is a physical actor and playwright specializing in interactive theater and improvisation. She writes and performs original humorous productions drawn from her life, playing in traditional and non-traditional venues worldwide.

Via BarbaraInCharacter.com, she performs and produces interactive custom-designed characters-in-costume at corporate and community events, engaging audiences solo and in ensemble in service of event missions.

She has appeared at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the New York Clown Theater Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, First Night Boston, on the Discovery Channel, and as a clown in Brazil and Germany. She is based in California's San Francisco Bay Area.

Barbara has an honors BA from Brown University and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art, both in culture & performance.

I need help with...

I'm always enthused to connect with marketing and advertising folks, corporate & non-profit event planners, branding specialists, and festival coordinators.

Work Website

http://AppliedTheatrics.com

Blog or other personal website

http://BarbaraOnStage.com

Check out my...(book, workshop, etc.)

http://www.examiner.com/x-548-SF-Interactive-Art-Examiner

Other contact info (Your choice for phone, email, facebook, myspace, etc.)

Now@BarbaraInCharacter.com

How did you hear about this network?

online