![]() I asked my sister to lend us her cottage for a few days. This 6 CD thing and Kris (Aurora’s partner) had it, and we watched it, and they talked about how when they went to write one of their movies they rented a house in Jamaica and it was amazing, everything came together so easily. ![]() I remember watching the new biography series about Monty Python. We’d put in our sizzle reel in to CBC and they wanted us to write a bunch of sketches. We had put together this sizzle reel that we worked on individually, but the first time we had a writer’s retreat was kind of amazing. HK: Do you remember the first writers meeting with the four of you?ĪB: At first we were working independently, Meredith was elsewhere and we would meet up in person in Toronto sporadically. She’s been such a dear friend for so long. Even though she was off doing writing stuff for a while, and I went off to do Comedy Inc. HK: It sounds like Carolyn has been an amazing influence.ĪB: Yeah! My professional life has been entwined with Coco for so long. Do you want to get in on this?” I said “of course!” So in fact, I met Meredith doing this show trusting Carolyn's opinion enough and it turned out that Coco’s call was totally right. I remember her coming back and saying “oh my god you have to meet this woman Meredith MacNeill she’s amazing. Jen has already left when Meredith started, so Carolyn was the one who encountered Meredith. She had done This Hour has 22 Minutes and so had Meredith. I had met Jen Whalen at Second City because she was already an alumnus by the time I got there. HK: So obviously this is how you and Carolyn came together, but I’m curious to how you, Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen met to form Baroness von Sketch.ĪB: Well I would definitely say that Coco was the common denominator because all of us knew her. Jennifer Goodhue was also part of that show. ![]() Then four months later I joined her just as she was finishing her first show Honk if you Love Cheeses and we wrote my first show and her second show Family Circus Maximus. It was just a few months before Mary Pat Barrow left the Mainstage and Coco was moved up. When did you start working together professionally?ĪB: She was in the Second City Touring Company when I got hired, but not for very long. I know that you two were neighbours for a long time. ![]() HK: That’s amazing that you met Carolyn, one of your BVS co-stars, so early on. Then I didn’t do it again until after I graduated theatre school.ĪB: My former university roommate was taking classes and I went to go see her Second City Level D show and that’s the night I met Carolyn Taylor, and the rest is history! So, I got better at both of them because I was doing it in another language. And then because I it was improv, I wasn’t so in my head about the French. You know when you drink and you’re a little more comfortable speaking another language? It was kind of like that – not that I was drinking – but because I was thinking about the French, I wasn’t in my head so much. We did full on Theatre Sports in a little fake hockey area, the timekeepers wore jerseys, the whole bit! I was doing it in French too. Hayley Kellett: When were you introduced to improv?Īurora Browne: I was in a language camp in Quebec when I was 17. ![]()
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