Born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I received most of my improvisational gifts from observing others while sitting quietly in church as a little boy. My rigid childhood and old-school upbringing in the Southern Baptist church reinforced timid behaviors (the enemy of Improv) with all the fiery preaching, singing and the prayers of my grandmother, (who by the way is the blue print for the Madea character created by Tyler Perry). I didn't do a great deal of talking in front of… Continue