Funny In Failure

Melissa McGlensey is an American originally from Orange County, California, who currently resides in Melbourne Australia. She is a writer, comedian, improviser, filmmaker and a improv and sketch teacher. Melissa is also the director of Completely Improvised Potter as well as a company member of Soothplayers: Completely Improvised Shakespeare which was nominated for best comedy at Melbourne Fringe Festival. She has studied and performed improv and sketch comedy with a number of theatres all across the world including the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Improv Conspiracy and Second City Chicago. She is also a graduate from the Harold Ramis Film School at The Second City. When not studying, teaching or performing improv, sketch or stand up, Melissa is a contributing writer for Reductress and The Betoota Advocate. Her writing can also be seen on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, The Onion’s former site Starwipe and Today.com. In this podcast we chat about Play vs fun, stand up vs improv, fear, insecurities,