Episode 15: Cole Quirk
Current Town: Los Angeles, CA What are you working on now?: A story about murder. And chicken. But not chicken murder. Tell me, if you will, a story that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: I was living in NYC, and one night, an old friend invited me to join her at a theater I’d never heard of. I walked into the dark basement of a Gristedes grocery store, which housed the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre, saw an improv show (I think it was an ASSSCAT 3000, with some of the 30 Rock cast) and I fell in love with the form. I needed to do that; improvisational comedy. I took every class I could, wrote sketches, made musical parodies and put them on YouTube. I was trying to leave a legal career, unsure how or what to do instead, but being silly with a group of strangers for three hours a week completely saved me. My “ah ha!” moment was watching a show featuring a sketch I wrote and hearing the laughs from my words that the actors so magically brought to life. It was such a