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Where do you live and work? (City)

Brooklyn

Professional Skills

Facilitating, Training, Development, Process Improvement, Team Building, Directing, Teaching

What is your main interest in this network?

Education, Improv Resources

What kind of person are you?

24-7

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

Teambuilding, Creativity, Innovation, Problem Solving, Communcation, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Life Skills, Change Management, Sales, Presentation Skills

Any niche industries, skills, etc?

Homebuilding industry - I help develop the relationship between the builder and vender / supplier.

Share a favorite 'improv epiphany'

It is amazing what can be accomplished when you :
1. Make positive choices (yes...and)
2. In the moment (knowing something so well you don't have to think about it while you are doing it)
3. Focus on making the other person look great!

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

Hal Peller - Hal is currently directing the Little Britches (an all women comedy group) and Brooklyn Improv Group (BIG) who perform at the historic Players Theatre in Greenwich Village, NYC. He facilitated workshops at the Broadway Theater Institute including “Improvisation for the Theater”, “Theater Games for Non-Actors”, “Theater Games for Teachers (Staff Development)”, and “Corporate Management Training”. www.improvworkshop.com

Hal ' s corporate work includes Fortune 500 companies such as NEC, GE Financial Services, Insight Solutions for Business and Pulte Homes. Over the past year, Hal conducted over 100 seminars and workshops nationwide and presented at national conferences on Quality, Process Improvement, Customer Satisfaction, and Leadership for TrueNorth Development, a nationally recognized consulting firm, www.trueN.com . He has worked “one on one” with CEO’s, and senior management as a change agent, helping move their corporate culture in a positive direction. Hal has been a teaching artist conducting improv workshops in the New York City public school system. He directed “The Fine Young Comedians”, a teen sketch comedy group that performed at Stand Up New York and featured on ABC FAMILY TV. Hal also developed a team building workshop based on the book "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni.

Hal studied with Paul Sills, David Shepherd, Del Close and Martin Harvey Friedberg of Chicago’s Second City Theater. He did stand-up comedy in the 1970’s, then in the 1980’s became the founding Artistic Director and a cast member of the “Port Authority Theater Ensemble”, a New York improv group.

Hal has served on the Boards of The Broadway Theater Institute and The Women’s Resource Center of New York.

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http://www.improvworkshop.com