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From left, Sara Karp, Mike Mellen, Meghan Klein and Laurel Balciunas perform as the Fearless Improv Brigade on stage at Surfside Playhouse. TOM WILBY PHOTOS

Improv comedy makes an art of mimicking life

Mario Busacca, founder the Fearless Improv Brigade, urges his students to get a grip on their fears and come loose with improv.

Maria Sonnenberg
professor at Florida Institute of Technology | msonnenb32904@yahoo.com

Maria is a prolific writer and proofer for Space Coast Living and an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology’s Nathan M. Bisk College of Business. When not writing, teaching or traveling, she can be found waging a one-woman war against her lawn and futilely attempting to maintain order among the chaos of a pack of extremely clueless wirehair dachshunds and an angst-driven basset hound.