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“As a fan of improv, I enjoy being around Blank Stage. Blank Stage recently involved my business in a remarkable experiment which used improv to demonstrate different aspects of my business. The value in doing this was that I got to see my business from a few different outside perspectives and really got to learn a lot about how other people perceive what I do. Ultimately, through out their skits, I discovered an answer to a question that I’ve had for two years! Blank Stage has an amazingly innovative approach to helping businesses with improv and I’m confident and proud to recommend them”
- Bryan Menendez, Owner and Operator of Crepe Masters

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“Brent and Blank Stage Productions thank-you you so much for a part of our very first ACES meeting! It was great and we have heard so many positive comments about it. You and your team did a fantastic job conducting the improv interviewing, making the event come to life!”

- Holly Bass, Chair of Strategic Alignment VP Membership for the Cobb Chamber of Commerce

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“Brent and Blank Stage Productions worked on a budget and tight timeline. He became a coach to those with little experience in front of the camera. He became an inspiration in pulling out all the emotional reasons to choose GrowthANSWERS. And he became my hero when he completed this massive project on time, on budget with a product that connects with our target market.”
- Don Rigby, Founder of GrowthANSWERS, Inc

10 Commandments of Improvisation

Beginning improv taught at The Blank Stage
Monday Nights - Next class begins Monday Sept. 22nd
$245
Registration: http://blankstageworkshops.com/products-page/

Blank Stage empowers the student with the basic understanding of solid improv scene work or the fundamentals of any improv scene. Through the conception of the 10 commandments of improvisation, students will learn the correct form to establish an environment, create a relationship, introduce a problem and solve the problem. Learn in a safe, action packed, fun environment. Improv at the Blank Stage is great for the actor and the non-actor alike. Most of our first time students are not performers rather simply looking to do something different, something fun. Many have found that improv improves their day-to-day communication skills, problem solving abilities and ability to think outside the box. Each 6-week course ends with a graduation show and students can take the class again for half price.

Innovation is a topic very much on my mind these days . . .

1. I’m currently in the process of courting a Strategic Innovation firm (DeSai Group) in hopes they will invite me to join their team — to formally represent them in growing their Innovation and Change practice area. (In case you’re wondering: Having a “real job” with a Best of Breed firm serving the Fortune 1000, has always been the secret to my success in serving the local entrepreneurial market.) I’m actually out there on the street doing the stuff I counsel local Trainers, Coaches, and Consultants to do in their own Sales & Marketing efforts — and this “in the trenches” experience is where we get all the rich, practical content that we now provide worldwide in SPEED® School.

2. We’ve been meeting a lot of truly innovative business people here locally (Atlanta) as we work to book our Fall and Winter line ups for The High Velocity Radio Show.

Enter Brent Brooks and the incredibly talented team at Blank Stage:

Bottom Line: I witnessed an ecstatic client get more real work done in an hour and a 1/2 than he would have accomplished in a month of meetings with some ad agency or marketing guru.

What I Saw Last Night: I won’t do it justice here. For that, you’ll want to have a conversation with Blank Stage’s Lesley Gray. Lesley@blankstageproductions.com 404.406.0366

But see if you can picture this: Armed with just a little input provided by the client (brief questionnaire before-hand, and short interview just before the fun starts), six or seven professional Improv Actors play out in rapid fire, scene after scene vividly portraying dozens of absolutely hilarious situations that effortlessly create awareness, desire, excitement, concern, curiosity . . . and evoke every other thought and emotion one would want to elicit from their target market. Pan camera left, and see the client furiously taking notes the entire time (except when he laughed so hard he spewed his coke and dropped his pen).

It was by far the most entertaining evening I’ve personally enjoyed in a very long time. More importantly . . .

- The client thinks I’m a genius for connecting him with these folks and this process.

- After 90 minutes of pure delight and fun, this usually harried executive walked away with a bounce in his step, a twinkle in his eye, and more practical ideas for getting the real work of marketing done than he would have ever accomplished through any other means.

If you serve in a marketing capacity for your organization, or consult to those who do . . . get to know the folks at Blank Stage.

Media contact: Lesley Gray
Tel. 678-797-0187 | lesley@blankstageproductions.com
585 Cobb Parkway S. Marietta Ga. 30060
DIRECTIONS
Sept 4 - Sept 25
Thrusday, Friday & Saturdays, 8pm
TIX: $15 online and $20 at the door

MR. RIGHT-ENOUGH
Dating has never been so … digital.

Marietta, GA - If you’re single then having a sexy MySpace, e-harmony or any online dating profile is critical, right? Your image is everything. But what happens when the things you list aren’t exactly true; you’re much shorter than 6’2”, you don’t make $300,000 a year, and you still live with your mother.

In the Blank Stage’s original Mr. Right-enough the idea of the perfect profile is flipped completely upside down when our hero decides to take matters into his own hands. By creating the anti-myspace social networking website and encouraging everyone to list only their major flaws, a mini revolution sparks and our hero finds himself in a place he never thought he would end up… on top of the social food chain.

In Blank Stage’s latest romantic comedy Mr. Right-enough, themes of individuality and true love shine through. Fortunately for all of those that missed the first run the cast is delighted to come back and do it again. “Since all of our shows are original, we never really know how they are going pan out, so with Mr. Right-enough we decided to produce a small, limited run,” says director Brent Brooks. “Due to sell-out crowds, repeat business and just how much fun the show is we all feel this is the right move.”

Blank Stage brings its unique brand of theme based, long-form, narrative improv back to the stage with a second run of the romantic comedy Mr. Right-enough. Each show is completely different as real life audience members are profiled and portrayed live onstage, each night. Questions like “What is your most annoying habit?” or “what would you never put on a your myspace profile?” are used as the flesh of the story and placed into the matrix of the romantic comedy story-line.

Does the idea of even showing up just freak you out? Don’t worry you certainly don’t have to participate in filling out the audience profiles. While this show is a perfect date option, Mr. Right-enough has a little something for everybody. For the ladies it has those tug-at-your-heart type moments with a real complex love story, for the guys the show is loaded with plenty of eye candy and sophomoric humor.

Media contact: Lesley Gray
Tel. 404-217-6903 | lesley@blankstageproductions.com
www.mr.right-enough.com
585 Cobb Parkway S. Marietta Ga. 30060
Sept 4 - Sept 25
Thrusday, Friday & Satrudays, 8pm
TIX: $15 online and $20 at the door