 You just witnessed a change in history because this is my very first time conference presentation. I'm Wu Xiaoxian, I'm from Taiwan. I'm Xiaoxian Wu. My years ago when there was no improv and luckily I got to do improv as my full profession it has been several years and I have this company called Gus Impra and this is our beautiful studio in Taipei Taiwan where we held all our rehearsal and workshops and this picture is from two months ago one of my regular two-day Impra intensive workshop and this guy over here is a typical Taiwanese college boy who's very shy, use brand more than his body and speak very little voice and at the end of the workshop he revealed himself he said on the first day of the workshop he got the studio earlier like one hour earlier and he wandered around the front door of our studio and he was so scared about what's gonna happen because he's new to improv and he also struggled about if he should leave just turn away and leave although he took him two hours to travel to Taipei and he already paid for the workshops and when he revealed that to me I feel so emotional because if this is his door I have my door too this was my door this is school of theater in Berkeley Rep for the theater it's not too far from here in 2003 I was the intern in Berkeley Rep for years and I get to do the workshop for free this one-time Impra comedy workshop and before the workshops I was so scared to death about the idea of acting in English but I was so curious about what's improv I have never heard about this before so I'm glad I went into that door I make the step into the door and maybe more curious about improv so a couple months later I came to another door this door yeah everybody was there last night and I took more improv in here and every time when I have to come to the workshop I the same I'm very scared and I'm thinking about not going and that's that's magic about improv you feel scared every time but you still wanted to do it again again and by the time I wrap up my study in the United States I talked with my beginning improv teacher I said I won't be able to do improv in Taiwan when I got back because there's no improv in Taiwan and you need partners for improv and my beginning improv teacher she said you should start teach improv in Taiwan once you get back and when your theater company do your first show I will go to Taiwan and do the show guess who's this fabulous teacher and a seed in here and that's what I get to do after that so from nothing to public improv performance and about 2,000 people was our workshop participants so it's amazing in private make magic happen and that if you want to introduce something new try something new to your world it can be frustrated and you have doubts to yourself and other people and it feels lonely sometimes yeah and but yeah again improv is magical you your partners start showing up and you get to do more and more and things keep happening so that's my story for improv and I know this is a applied improv conference I I want to talk a little more about applied improv so besides theater improv I also get to do some applied improv in Taiwan with university non-for-profit organization and the corporate and I I really want to use this time to get a message to invite more theater improvisers or theater improv coaches because I am from the perspective of theater improvisers and I in order to do more applied improv work I have to go out and learn new things so I step into few more new doors to facilitation and I started learn some coaching this year and it also feel scared if you want to step into new feel new doors and in this conference we have heard message about speak their language it's like we are from different planets different words so from theater to the real world I know some of the theater improviser will hesitate about it and I want to share my little story about it I just did this satir coaching model workshop like in last month and yeah and I did it because I want to work better with my fellow improvisers like managers and a leader in the group so but when I get it to that workshop it's all that 15 business executives and I'm this key person from another world and I think maybe when we need to divide two different groups no one will want to be with the same group with me but when the teachers say we let's break out to the group suddenly there are at least five people in front of me they're like can you be the group with me I was surprised and the funny thing is like two days before the class the teacher of that workshop actually call me and want to make sure I'm the right person to sign up that class because it says they need the class is for three years of both a business executives and I thought I am the business executive for my company so yeah and the best thing is I'll say by taking those those kind of classes it expensive but it's a good investment because if you already know how to improvise I think with a little more investment you will become fabulous facilitator or coach like Anita just said yeah it's a great investment so for that class right after that class I got hired by one of my classmates who is a human resources executive and I got double back from the tuition I just paid so I have been this conference for four times and I think I meet more and more theater improvisers coming to this conference I think it's great but I already know also notice there are people who already done apply improv so they maybe means they are better shape in their finance and I wanted to invite more poor improvisers coming to this world and it's a great investment get yourself step into the store and I brought three poor improvisers to this conference this year