Mick Napier was born on December 12,1962 and is an American director and improvisational theater teacher.
11 Facts About Mick Napier
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Mick Napier is the founder and artistic director of the Annoyance Theatre and a director at The Second City.
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Mick Napier has directed Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Horatio Sanz, Nia Vardalos, Andy Richter, Jeff Garlin, and David Sedaris.
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Mick Napier founded The Annoyance with the philosophy that training improvisers to be individually powerful is the best way to support those with whom one improvises, an answer to the Yes, And philosophy, which he found led to weak, polite improvisation more often than powerful, good improvisation, a subject that he elaborates on in his book, Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out.
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Mick Napier's wrote his handbook guide for students of improvisation, Improvise:Scene from the Inside Out in 2002.
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Mick Napier argues that these 'Rules' are not only not helpful, but actually destructive to the process of creating good improv.
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Mick Napier is an Artistic Consultant to The Second City and recently directed their 50th anniversary mainstage show.
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Mick Napier has directed several other revues, notably including "Red Scare" and "Paradigm Lost" for which he received a Jeff Award.
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Mick Napier teaches Advanced Improvisation at The Annoyance, the final level of the improv comedy training program.
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Mick Napier makes numerous guest appearances at improv shows staged throughout the city.
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Mick Napier served as a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend on the CBC.