Back in 2003, comedic actor Shawn Westfall started an improvisation comedy school at the DC Improv on Connecticut Avenue along with club manager Allyson Jaffe. What began with a mere 14 students has now graduated nearly 1,800 people. And this past week, Westfall and Jaffe celebrated their 10th anniversary of helping D.C. bring the funny. (WAMU, Phil Harrell, May 17, 2013)
In addition to his work at the DC Improv, Shawn has taking improv off of the stage into corporate and organizational events, through his work with Commedia Partners. He's also taken to the stage outside of improv, by way of storytelling. You can see a true tale he told, as part of a special Story District (formerly known as SpeakeasyDC) Valentine's Day show from 2014 right below:
And now, his latest adventure in the DC Arts scene relatively recently started, with the founding of The Unified Scene Theater.
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The "brainchild" of him and Kathy Baird Westfall, The Unified Scene Theater is:
an improvisational and sketch comedy theater located in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, DC, as well as multi-use performance, rehearsal, event, and meeting space.Shawn Westfall, a man you can and should get to know better through his work in DC (if you don't know him already), is best summed up using his own words, courtesy of his Twitter profile:
I make a living teaching people, organizations, and Fortune 500 companies how to make crap up. I have no idea how this happened.So connect with him on Twitter at @shawnwestfall, like The Unified Scene Theater on Facebook (especially if you didn't go to their website yet, linked above earlier), and if you've ever wondered whether you need help making crap up in DC, the answer is yes and now you know who you're going to call.
