Season 9, Episode 9 - Shawn Handlon Part I
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This week, Planet Ant Artistic Director, home team member, and former Second City Mainstage cast member Shawn Handlon visits the After Improv Podcast. In Part I of a two-part interview, Shawn talks about his 20 years of improvising, why he changed his last name, growing up with seven siblings, stepping down as vice president of a bank to pursue improv, how “Star Wars” inspired him to write, and what it was like living on a cruise ship for almost three years. All this, and more:
- 20 years
- Not his given name
- The only child
- A man of business
- Steve and Stephen
- The first days of improv
- Touching moments
- Funkytown
- Genital Ben
- TourCo
- Bad bank breakup
- Mad mom, mad dad
- Mainstage
- Written in the Star
- Power battles
- Novi
- Cruisin’
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