Liz Allen Buries the Lede

Our season 5 closer is a real treat! We have an incredible guest, Liz Allen, improv performer, director, coach, teacher and guru Liz Allen. Liz has performed and coached improv for 32 years! She works primarily out of iO in Chicago, (This is a big deal people!) but she has performed and coached improv all over the world, notably at the Edinburgh Fringe and, oh, by the way, she coached The Commune, the improv ensemble in Mike Birbiglia’s 2016 feature film Don’t Think Twice, NBD. (This actually blows Sarah’s mind as Mike Birbiglia is her fave comedian.) Recently, Liz has been delving into solo show writing and performance, she recently performed her first solo show, Tonight I Am My Mother, and is completing her next solo show, There Were Signs, about her years in Las Vegas with her husband and their offspring. This is how Sarah met Liz, on an online solo show class with The Barrow Group, which is one good thing we can say about the pandemic. Okay, she sounds amazing, but how does she end up as a guest on Comedicine? Well, before discovering improv, Liz was a mechanical engineer! What? She worked for fifteen years as a consulting engineer and pharmaceutical technical writer. One night, on a lark, she joined some friends seeing a show at The Second City in downtown Chicago…and Liz got bit by improv. Do engineering and improv mesh? You be the judge!

www.lizallenimprov.com
lizallenimprov@comcast.net
www.tonightiammymother.com


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Elaine Miller, Fanny and Me!

In this episode of Comedicine, we get to talk to pelvic physiotherapist and comedian, Elaine Miller. Elaine Miller is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, specialising in women’s health.  She started doing stand-up comedy as a hobby, finding the lighter side of female urinary incontinence. In doing so, she found a way to reach and educate women about their fannies. Elaine lives in Edinburgh, home of the biggest Arts festival in the world, so the obvious next step for her was to write and perform a solo show about pelvic floors at the Edinburgh Fringe. Gusset Grippers, won the Comedy Award at Fringe World, Australia in 2020.  Her second show, Viva Your Vulva, the Hole Story, was one of only two shows to be awarded five stars in 2023.  She collaborated with Monash University on a paper examining humour as a health promotion tool and her #DryByChristmas social media campaign reminding women to do their pelvic floor exercises was published by Rosie Haper from Bournemouth University. Elaine shares some incredible facts, like 50% of women don’t know the difference between the vulva and the vagina. FIFTY PERCENT PEOPLE! This is just not acceptable to Elaine. It is also not acceptable that it takes and average of 7 years for women to get medical help with incontinence. SEVEN YEARS!! The good news is that once you find a pelvic physio, most women get better! Through humour, Elaine is trying to change the world. One vagina at a time.


Clip – https://youtu.be/XODY8eqbG4I?feature=shared

More information on Elaine: https://www.csp.org.uk/frontline/article/3-minutes-elaine-miller

Scientific papers on humour:
https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/could-humour-be-the-key-to-a-healthier-society

https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rharper1

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Your host, Dr Sarah Boston
Dr Sarah Boston is a veterinary surgical oncologist (cancer surgeon for dogs and cats), cancer survivor (ironic, right?), bestselling author, actor and stand up comedian. She is a 2023 graduate of the Humber College Comedy Performance and Writing Program. She is the 2023 recipient of the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award, which recognizes and supports promising comedic performers in the early stages of their career She is also the recipient of the Award for Academic Excellence from Humber College because she is a nerd in all aspects of her life.
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Theatre is Life with Stephanie Goss

How does a degree in theatre and music help you run a veterinary hospital? Let me count the ways! Our guest in this episode is Stephanie Goss. Stephanie started out with a plan to be in the theatre, but on the production management side. Then she transitioned to teaching. Then she transitioned into veterinary medicine. She is not afraid to make changes or take chances. We talk about her career path from receptionist to veterinary technician to practice manager to working for the Uncharted Veterinary Conference. Uncharted is a great word for Stephanie’s career, but it’s honestly working out for her. She is the co-host of the Uncharted Veterinary Podcast with friend of Comedicine, Dr Andy Roark. We can’t wait to see what Stephanie does next! Sarah is hoping that fixing veterinary medicine is on her to do list.

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Your host, Dr Sarah Boston
Dr Sarah Boston is a veterinary surgical oncologist (cancer surgeon for dogs and cats), cancer survivor (ironic, right?), bestselling author, actor and stand up comedian. She is a 2023 graduate of the Humber College Comedy Performance and Writing Program. She is the 2023 recipient of the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award, which recognizes and supports promising comedic performers in the early stages of their career She is also the recipient of the Award for Academic Excellence from Humber College because she is a nerd in all aspects of her life.
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