For David's surprise 80th, Michael Golding came from LA, Willie Wyllie from Ottawa and Howard Jerome from Toronto. Over 30 years they launched improv radio, night club and performance sports. David on right. (credit: Woody Ford)

WHO WE ARE

Here are a few of the designers and trainers who’ve provided the energy and creativity that kept us together over the past 33 years. (Many are available to visit you and help you implement your own group creativity project.)

Karl Benko—New Jersey improv-logistician
Philip Belove—Vermont therapist and musician
David Brager—The Future's Toolkit author
Noell Evans—Ohio video producer and playwright
Allen Davis III—playwriting teacher in NYC Latino theatre program
Randy Dixon—teacher and director of Seattle theatre festivals
Nancy Fletcher—Massachusetts improv coach and director of Act Now!
John Fucile—New Jersey video producer and camera man
Izzy Gesell—Massachusetts public speaker and comedian
Michael Golding—L.A. screen writer and improv teacher
Howard Jerome—Toronto actor and improv director
David Lutzer—NYC actor and expert in problem solving
Jasper McGruder—East Coast actor and teacher
Nikil Melnechuk—East Coast writer and video producer
Peter Morales—Massachusetts video editor and producer
Paul Pierog—NYC solo performer and writer
Anthony Pisano—Staten Island improviser and technician
David Shepherd—project manager and curriculum developer
Evan Shepherd—Pennsylvania video cameraman and editor
Amy Swisher—Massachusetts PR specialist and teacher of paired writing
Jack Tannenbaum--Massachusetts writer and trainer in communication skills
Jim Tomasello—Chicago improviser and musician
Dan Wahba—Long Island actor and financial advisor
Dan Wiener—Connecticut therapist and improv director
Willie Wyllie—Ottawa producer of improv formats and high school leagues
Mark Siska—co-producer of DVD on origin of improv theatre
Robert Piller—web designer for Group Creativity Project

L A T E S T   N E W S  on COACHES and TRAINERS:

Nancy Fletcher is writing grant proposals as well as a licensing agreement for schools, agencies and camps that want to do MOVIExperience as part of their own programming. Next October she may be in Australia training an agency that works with young girls at risk.

Michael Golding is finding a publisher for his book on doing improv with at risk Hispanic teens.

Veronica Haddad is walking and talking as if life is not hers but of her, and she of it. She's creating a performance group that will use some of the strategies and concepts as Group Creativity.

Howard Jerome is developing his Kabala Kabaret in Toronto and taking it on the road to many cities—including Jerusalem.

David Shepherd is offering Improv for Creativity to colleges—games that boost creativity in body, emotion, character, story and song. With Interns Todd and Sia he's boiling 65 years of journals down to about 100 pages. In February he goes to Seattle for the Improv Festival there.

Amy Zuckerman is becoming the virtual business expert on EONS.com—the web site for Boomers. On the Building a Virtual Business page she writes a weekly blog on how to thrive in middle and even older middle age.