Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

Reframing

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The question popping and repopping in my brain is…do I really want to bitch about a year of improv?

The answer is no. However, it is still important for me to process it and to learn from it. I want to summarize the year and see what happened. What could I have done differently? What happened that led me to where I am today, both the good places and the painful ones.

Dearest Reader(s) — assuming you are there — hang on. The point is to learn from my Shattered Improv Year…it’s brought me to a great place.

From the fire I rise…

Considering I just got another show, which would not have happened if I hadn’t gone through everything, it all turns out ok, doesn’t it?

The goal in the retelling and the learning-through-retelling? A good, hearty, funny story.

Promise.

Happy Weekend, all!