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Specialties
Merlin Works offers award-winning improv comedy classes, corporate team building training, and custom comedy shows in Austin, TX. Led by nationally touring teachers and performers at the shores of Ladybird Lake, our interactive exercises build listening & communication skills, heighten awareness, and teach you how to be more playful, spontaneous, and flexible in a fun and safe environment. Contact us today to learn more!
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History
Established in 2003.
Merlin Works is the brainchild of Shana Merlin: improviser, teacher, and performer.
Since 1996 she’s been leading classes that stretch people’s imaginations, push them out of their comfort zones, and make them laugh out loud for hours at a time.
Over time, she started hearing more and more stories reporting how the workshop had improved other «unrelated»” parts of their lives. One student energized a board meeting with an improv game from class. Another student started playing an improv game with her husband to improve their communication. A third said the workshop helped him ace a job interview, and a fourth said it helped him close a sale. Then students started asking her to teach at their businesses, organizations, and schools, to spread her message of play, group creativity, and spontaneity.
So in 2003, Merlin Works was born, offering improv to everyone who wanted it.
Meet the Business Owner
Shana M.
Business Owner
Shana Merlin is a highly acclaimed performer, teacher, and corporate trainer. Most recently she was awarded «Best Improv Teacher» and «Best Improv Class» and commended for her «Outstanding Contribution to Improv in Austin» by the Austin Improv Collective.
Since 1996, Shana has been a professional improviser, performing from Calgary to San Francisco to Atlanta to Las Vegas to London. Shana is a founding member of Girls Girls Girls Improvised Musicals, winner of «Best Improv Troupe in Austin» in the Austin Chronicle Reader’s Poll and two time winner of «Best of the Week» at FronteraFest, and Get Up, a duo improv troupe with Gnap! Theater Project’s Shannon McCormmick.
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