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Lulu French
Lulu French has been improvising for the past eleven years. She started improv taking classes at Gotham City Improv (GCI) and has appeared in numerous improv shows at GCI including SurvivorProv, Gotham Beyond, Off the Top of Our Heads, The Strange Box of Dr. Oddbody, and Meet Market, and both performed and co-produced for Happy Birthday from the Huntleys, Pod, and Lazy Susan. Lulu has been on GCI’s teaching staff for eight years teaching all levels of improv and has directed several of Gotham’s performance ensembles. Lulu also teaches improv workshops to youths for Broadway Classrooms.
In addition to her study at GCI she has also studied with Upright Citizens Brigade members Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, and Matt Walsh, and various other Second City alumni such as Armando Diaz, Kevin Scott, Todd Stashwick, and John Thies.
TV and film credits include Yearbook:1983 on the Discovery Times Channel, various roles on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the fully improvised film Losing Stephen, and the Del Monte Fruit Chillers website. Corporate industrial credits include performing for companies such as Pfizer, Cephalon, and Merck. Lulu was a founding member of the sketch comedy group, Camera Shy Seniors which performed in venues such as Catch a Rising Star, Boston Comedy Club, Felber’s Frolics, and The Red Room Theater.
Before becoming an improviser, Lulu was a musical theater performer. She started dancing when she was six and danced with the Appalachian Ballet Company in her youth. She also received various voice scholarships while a Music and Musical Theater Major at The University of Tennessee and eventually graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. She has numerous stock and regional theater credits performing in musicals such as Into the Woods, Tomfoolery, Nunsense, and Karaoke the Musical and the national tours of My Fair Lady and She Loves Me.
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