Finding My Way Back to the Joy of Improv in Bangkok

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Friday, June 20 — Choose Your Own Adventure at Comedy Club Bangkok

(Chris, Jennie, Myself, Andrew, Pim)

June 20th marked seven months since I started performing in Bangkok and what a ride it’s been. I hit the ground running with short-form shows at Comedy Club Bangkok, doing the familiar fast-paced games in the spirit of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. But this night was different. We performed a long-form improv show in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books, and I remembered how intimidating long-form used to feel. It’s funny the more I do it, the more it feels like home.

Chris and Jennie have been incredible in helping me find a place in the Bangkok improv scene. I’ve loved playing with the house team of Andrew, Pim, Eric, and Kally, a group of generous, fearless performers. This was the first show without Kally, who had just given birth the day before (and was still absolutely crushing it through her whole pregnancy). Being part of a house team again, especially in another country, has reconnected me with a version of myself I hadn’t seen in a while. It’s been healing.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Saturday, June 21 — Zmack Presents The Feed: Live in Bangkok at Luka Cafe

Sometime's you're the hammer, sometime's you're the snail. Whatever the team needs.

Then, on Saturday, I had the chance to perform with Curt Mabry and the Zmack team for the first time. We took his “Feed” workshop straight into a live show at Luka Cafe — using techniques from the Compass Players and the early days of The Second City, blending them with Viola Spolin’s classic games. The cast was a mix of first-timers and experienced improvisers, and the scenes moved fluidly between Thai and English. That’s something I’d never done before improvising in a multilingual space and it was genuinely thrilling

Improv has always been about connection, listening, and building something bigger than yourself and this weekend felt like a reminder of all of that. I’m so grateful to the Thai and Asian comedians who’ve welcomed me so openly. We got to learn from each other, lift each other up, and build something truly new together.

Seven months in, I’ve rediscovered my love for this art form this thing that has taken me all over the world.

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