Deep dive
life coaching for improvisers
Over the course of your improv journey, it’s common to see improv impacting your life outside of the theater. Improv as an artform offers a wealth of life skills, and challenges students and performers to confront personal obstacles that may be holding them back from living a more creative, joyful, and fulfilling life.
This course is taught by a certified life coach and a skilled therapeutic co-facilitator, and meets twice: once to deep dive into participants’ experiences and give them tools and practices to live a more examined and expansive life, then again a few weeks later to see how participants have grown and put their new tools to work. Designed as a companion course to classes at Third Coast, this workshop meets once mid-session and once toward the end of the Third Coast class session. It is intended for improvisers with a current improv practice, and Third Coast students enrolled in Level 2 or higher.
Session 1 will meet on Sundays, February 5th and 26th from 3:30-5:30 pm CST at Third Coast Comedy Club in Marathon Village in Nashville, TN. Class size is limited to 16 participants.
Meet the instructors of deep dive
Samantha Frances Cutler
Samantha Frances Cutler (she/her) is a singer, songwriter, and certified life coach originally from Colorado Springs. She spent 5 years in Seattle before making Nashville home in 2006. A performer since childhood, she grew up singing in a competitive children's choir. She had a brief improv encounter in middle school before moving on to musical theater. She has spent the last 20 years touring and performing with her rock band as well as backing other artists. She has also been working in the coaching sphere since 2002, first with Landmark Education, then achieving her Life Coaching certification from the School of the Healing Arts in Nashville in 2019. Her love for improv has been awakened once again, and she is excited to be part of the Third Coast and Unscripted community. She believes improv and coaching go hand-in-hand and loves helping others find self confidence and love for themselves through the art of improv!
Stevie Houtschilt
Stevie Houtschilt, MD (they/them) did not have a theater or arts background until 2016 when a life-changing car accident prompted them to consider a new adventure. Following the encouragement they received in 8th grade when they won the runner-up award to “Best Laugh!”, they decided to enroll in Patch Adam’s Students for Designing a Society clown school, a residential school that uses Clowning as lens for compassion and social change. Afterwards, they went to Vanderbilt Medical School with dreams of pursuing psychiatry. As a student, they began taking improv classes and performing at Third Coast Comedy Club, eventually forming the all-LGBTQ+ troupe Carol, and they volunteered with Unscripted, helping to develop the Improv For Anxiety course. They are committed to providing inclusive and compassionate spaces for people to heal, grow, and share positive experiences together.