Building Bridges Improv Podcast-Episode 49 (Stacey Hanlon)

Jul 27, 2022

Stacey joins Jennifer and David on a bridge to talk about her first improv experience in NYC, the source of her creativity, and how improv has greatly affected her life.

Stacey Reed Hanlon is originally from Akron, Ohio.  She began her improvisational career in New York City in 1999, where she studied with The Upright Citizens Brigade, Armando Diaz and Gary Austin. In NYC she co-founded improv troupe Late Night Ritalin, wrote for and appeared in Saturday Night Rewritten, and was a performer in Manhattan Comedy Collective’s Character Dog Run.

She has performed in improv festivals in New York, Austin, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Albuquerque & Phoenix.  Stacey can currently be seen performing with improv troupes Light Rail Pirates and JaxN Reed.

Her local theatre credits include Jenna in Tangelico, ensemble performance in the world premiere of Greg Kotis’ The Unhappiness Plays and Mabel in A Bloody Mary Christmas, a role that she created through improvisation along with co-creators Jacqueline Arend, Shawna Franks and Denny Guge.

Stacey is a founding member of The Torch Theatre and the co-founder of Conducted Stories Improv, a Phoenix-based organization that uses improvisational theatre to foster communication and social skills with neurodivergent populations, including youth on the Autism spectrum and people with Dementia and their caregivers.  

Stacey is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and studied abroad with the Institute for American Universities in Avignon, France.

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