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Shira Piven's Creative Superpower

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Today's guest on "ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky" is writer, director, actor, teacher, creator, and innovator, Shira Piven. Shira's directed the motion picture "Welcome to Me," with Kristen Wiig, and episodes of Amazon's "Transparent" and "One Mississippi." She currently works with Tim Robbins' Actors Gang Prison Project, teaching commedia dell'arte to inmates in California prisons. Shira's the daughter of improv pioneers Joyce and Byrne Piven, and is the sister of actor Jeremy Piven, and is married to Oscar-award winning director and Second City alum Adam McKay. We discussed passion, what a director's job is, collaboration, the untapped superpower of creativity, and growing up in "Byrne Piven's House of Digression." This chat flies all over the place. Of course it does, it's ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky.

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Manage episode 199223110 series 28953
Content provided by Dave Razowsky. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Dave Razowsky or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Today's guest on "ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky" is writer, director, actor, teacher, creator, and innovator, Shira Piven. Shira's directed the motion picture "Welcome to Me," with Kristen Wiig, and episodes of Amazon's "Transparent" and "One Mississippi." She currently works with Tim Robbins' Actors Gang Prison Project, teaching commedia dell'arte to inmates in California prisons. Shira's the daughter of improv pioneers Joyce and Byrne Piven, and is the sister of actor Jeremy Piven, and is married to Oscar-award winning director and Second City alum Adam McKay. We discussed passion, what a director's job is, collaboration, the untapped superpower of creativity, and growing up in "Byrne Piven's House of Digression." This chat flies all over the place. Of course it does, it's ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky.

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