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Doc Geressy - The Man, the Myth, the Legend
Doc's improv career officially began when he teamed up with the founding members of the improv group NOUN in 1998, and was the first group where Doc really started honing his talent for improv.  While attending college at Appalachian State, the troupe travelled all over North and South Carolina performing at festivals, social gatherings, and even on the city streets. 
 
However, Doc has been doing improv for most of his life, from making character costumes as a kid, to theater throughout his primary schooling and entertaining wherever he happens to be. 
 
Post college, Doc worked throughout the Charlotte area with several troupes before finally breaking away with a few fellow improvists and formed the troupe, Will 'prov for Food. 
 
Doc has worked for 11 years in the radio industry, a profession where he improvised daily during his on-air shift.  Doc has put in thousands of hours of practice and performance time in both short and long form improv and continually seeks out and researches new and effective improv games and techniques.  
 
Having taught for 6 years at the collegiate level, Doc takes his teaching expertise and style of personal interaction, attention to detail, fun in learning, and desire to see students achieve their full potential and combines it with his love for improv. 
 
 
Dear Minions,
 
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to my Evil Empire.  I hope everyone brought a covered-dish like I asked as I am quite hungry and I'm currently not typing this in my kitchen, pantry, snack hovel, vegetable garden, cafeteria, or walk-in refrigerator.  If you guys neglected to bring a covered-dish, no worries.  I'll just send Mark McGwire to the Waffle House later. 
 
So why an evil improv empire?  Well, the better question is why not an evil improv empire!  I have always loved improv.  I did theater for years and never quite understood putting ten weeks of work into three performances.  That's where I really fell in love with improv.  You can just show up, exercise your mind and creativity, and feel great afterwards.  Drugs are expensive.  Improv is a free, natural high.  It was a no-brainer for me really.
 
I know what you're thinking.  "Doc, why do you want to teach improv?"  Well, I'm glad you asked.  I once read a quote in Redbook...or maybe it was Cosmo.  Okay, I read this quote one time in a magazine that said, "Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a day.  Throw a man out of a boat and he'll find out a whole new way to fish."  That wasn't the exact quote, but it went something like that.  The point here is that it's easy to do something the way you see everyone else do it.  But doing something different...well, sometimes you need someone to push you out of a boat.
 
I'm here to push you out of the boat. (I know it sounds harsh.  Hello?!  Evil.)  I'm going to challenge you to do new things; to reach new levels of understanding yourself, your life, and the world around you; to achieve things you didn't even know you were capable of doing.  How can I do that?  By jumping out of the boat with you when I push you.
 
So bring your swim trunks, goggles if you wear contacts, and one of those clothes-pin thingies for your nose (yeah, I hate getting water up my nose too), and get ready to dive into some improv.  Oh, and don't forget the covered-dish for next time.  I like macaroni and cheese and jello that doesn't have fruit in it.  We're also running low on Diet Dr. Pepper.
 
Most evilly yours,
 
Dr. M. Doc Geressy, D.S.O.
Evil Overlord
 
P.S. - I know what some of you might be thinking.  Evil Empires, pushing people out of boats, Mark McGwire, my website seems a little...er...different.  The fact is, it is.  And so am I.  And really, would you rather take improv from some stuffy boring person with a boring website, or would you rather take improv classes from someone who uses his imagination every day in everything he does?