The Stormchaser Improv Podcast Show

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Hi, we’re Stormchaser! We’re an improv comedy team in Los Angeles, CA, and we are Anatasha Blakely, Travis Cox, and Andrew Pish. We’ve performed together for around eight years and 600 shows - that’s 0.22 shows a day! Come join us for our Artist’s Brain episodes where we pick the brains of a wide variety of artists and performers and try to find those nuggets of gold that we use to buy more bitcoin. Then listen to our Gametape episodes where we review our own shows to talk about our process, detail what we could do differently next time, and passive-aggressively judge Pish for his life choices. Lastly, check out our Stormchaserology episodes where we define some of the unique improv lingo we’ve come to use over the years - like "that's schmangin" and "rivulet" and "commonwealth".

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45: Artist’s Brain - Nick Armstrong - Trusting Your Gut, The Business of Improv, Rocky IV

May 12 2023 56 mins

EVERYONE!!! It’s Nick Armstrong!!! NOT ONLY is he an incredible improviser (King Ten, Local 132) but he has also been an instrumental part of connecting and building the larger improv community with Camp Improv Utopia, theImprovNetwork.com, and Rise Comedy Theater in Denver, CO. Nick has strengthened the world’s improv community, and as a result, he’s helped cultivate the gro

44: Artist’s Brain - Greg Hess - Improv Pattern, Surprising Yourself, Artificial Intelligence

Mar 10 2023 77 mins

We have matching “We Love Greg Hess” tattoos. And it’s true - we always have. Always will. Greg is a core member of the legendary improv team Cook County Social Club, one of our favorite improv teams in the world, as well as a member of the ensemble of The Improvised Shakespeare Company. He is also co-host of the hit podcast MEGA, a serial comedy set in the world of a fiction

43: Artist’s Brain - Shaun Landry - Diversity in Improv, Importance of Community, Opening The Ledge Theatre

Feb 01 2023 77 mins

It was a pleasure to mind meld with the artist’s brain of Shaun Landry! We talked about why improv is important to her and how it can be beneficial to anyone who performs it, the current state of the improv community and the importance of accepting community, and her journey founding The Ledge Theatre, the FIRST Black-Owned improv theater in Los Angeles. You can follow her on ins

42: Gametape - “Tofu Chowder” - How the Ups and DownS of Life Affect Performance

Nov 16 2022 35 mins

We’re back with Gametape - our patented series where we review our recent shows - noting what we’re grateful for, what we could have done differently, and what made us break character and laugh out loud. We’re working to A) get on the same page as an ensemble and B) be more skillful with the wild, untamable beast of an art form we call improv. In this episode, Anatasha, Travi

41: Artist’s Brain - Niccole Thurman - Saying Yes to Opportunity, Becoming a Writer, Radical Acceptance

Oct 07 2022 65 mins

Niccole Thurman (The Opposition, Everything’s Trash, Kenan) sits down with Stormchaser to share how she became a writer, actor, and comedian. We cover a lot, and we dig deep into why it can be beneficial to say yes to what life sends your way - even when it terrifies you - and the process of getting into a writers room. Niccole is funny, charming, and has a dynamic Artist’s Bra

40: Gametape - “Piazza” - Finding and Repeating Patterns, Taking Big Swings and Missing

Sep 15 2022 25 mins

We’re back with Gametape! Our continuing mission: to explore our improv shows; to seek out new insights and new understandings; to boldly learn where we haven’t learned before. In this episode, Anatasha, Travis, and Andrew review our last Shakytown Shakedown show on August 20th. We celebrate - surprise surprise - our imperfection; we talk about how we can improve, especially no

39: Artist’s Brain - Jacob Sorling - Nerding Out On Improv, Self Improvement, Finding Joy in Making Art

Sep 01 2022 69 mins

Stormchaser talks with actor, film producer, and big time improv nerd Jacob Sorling. We talk about how Jacob became obsessed with improv, comedy, and making art. We dig into his recent inspirations including meditation, self improvement, and poetry. And we pick his brain on his current thoughts on improv and art like how to have fun with your work, pulling inspiration from real lif

38: Gametape - “Dinosaurs” - Producing and Performing, Treating Your Partner as a Genius

Aug 15 2022 31 mins

In this episode of The Stormchaser Improv Podcast Show, we’re back with more Gametape. The only thing better than surviving an improv show (that maybe wasn’t your best) is watching it back with your friends and then talking about it in front of MILLIONS of listeners. In this episode, Pish and Travis review our show from July 28th at our show The Shakeydown Shakedown and we talk

37: Gametape - “Pizza” - Balancing Space and Silliness, the Importance of Production Value

Jul 22 2022 23 mins

We’re back with Season two of the pod and we’re starting off with Gametape from our LIVE show on June 26th! We watch “gametape” to get better. Trav, Tash, and Andrew sit down and discuss what worked in our show and what definitely didn’t! Side note, As you may or may not know Anatasha isn’t currently performing with us because she’s a real life working actor performin

36: Artist’s Brain - Alex McKenna - Motion-Capture Acting, Self-Producing Films, Emotional Health

Aug 18 2021 84 mins

Stormchaser talks with the actress Alex McKenna - well-known from her lead role in Red Dead Redemption 2 as Sadie Adler. We talk about the multi-year process and challenges of being a lead actor on what Travis calls “the best-acted video game he’s ever seen,” the process of self-producing her short film, her new podcast on dealing with grief called Good Grief: The Gains of Lo