Monika Smith | Improvisation to Starring Opposite Patrick Stewart | Creatives In Quarantine
Channel: Tiwana Floyd
Date: 2021-01-12

Tiwana Floyd's video podcast series talking with creatives in quarantine 
New Episodes Every Tuesday 2021

Contents of Video
00:00 Intro
02:15 From Runway Model to Improv
04:56 Living With an Autoimmune Disease 
07:38 Performing at Second City Toronto
10:33 Retired From Modeling
14:50 Canada to Los Angeles
17:00 Teaching Improv at Second City Hollywood & UCB
20:45 Finding Comedy Community in Los Angeles
22:03 Teaching Improv in China
28:07 One Woman Show | Monoscene
31:42 What is "The Harold" in Improv
43:39 Acting Opposite Sir Patrick Stewart
46:11 Improv Before & After the Page
50:05 Quarantine Emotional Triggers 
52:52 Her Dog Felix the Xolo

This Week's Guest
Monika Smith
https://www.missmonikasmith.com
https://www.instagram.com/missmonikasmith/
https://www.instagram.com/felixsmithxolo/

Don't diminish Canadian-born Monika Smith's attributes to beauty alone. While she once traveled the world as a fashion model, her sense of humor led her to become an alumni performer at Second City Toronto at nineteen years old. 

Monika's adept knowledge of the craft of improv granted her opportunities to teach and write Long-Form curriculums in both America and China. When asked if comedy translates in foreign countries, she says  "all of us laugh at a fart." But don't take that retort to mean her comedy is lowbrow. Quite the opposite. Monika is sharp, and witty, and can bring an audience to uproarious laughter with one succinct quip. 

In fact, she shares a moment where her improvisation of a one-line co-star audition led to a guest star recurring role opposite Sir Patrick Stewart on the TV series Blunt Talk. 

If you're an improv nerd you'll geek out on this conversation. If you know nothing about improvisation you won't feel left out. 

Living with an autoimmune disease all of her life, Monika has found a way to educate the masses with the upcoming podcast "SICK" to be released in February 2021. Imagine being told by a physician you're too pretty to be sick, leading to a road of constant misdiagnoses. 

It's time the world hears the plight of those living with an autoimmune disease.

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Shot:    Zoom During the Pandemic
Edit:     Adobe Premiere Pro
Music: RipL

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