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About
Dave Schwensen
Dave
is the author of
How To Be A Working Comic: An Insider's Guide To A
Career In Stand-Up Comedy, (Backstage Books, NYC), and Comedy
FAQs And Answers: How The Stand-Up Biz Really Works,
(Allworth Press, NYC).
His credits
include Talent Coordinator for the television show A&E's
An Evening At The Improv, the Hollywood and New York City
Improv Comedy Clubs, and Assistant to Improv founder Budd
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With
The Improv in Hollywood and New York, Dave coordinated talent showcases
and auditions for major
television shows, networks and film studios. Included in this
list are The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
Late Night with David Letterman, The Today Show, In
Living Color, The
Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, The Great Lakes
Comedy Festival, Disney, Paramount, MTV, VH-1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, HBO,
Showtime and more.
Dave
is currently manager of The Cleveland Improv Comedy Club and
Restaurant. He's worked in the comedy industry for over two
decades and decided to do one workshop in 1994. They've
continued since...
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Dave
has extensive experience within the New
York, Hollywood and Cleveland / Midwest regions as a college
and corporate booking agent, (comedians, speakers and variety
acts), talent manager, publicist, radio
host, entertainment journalist, author, and award-winning humor
columnist. In addition to his comedy workshops and comedy
business seminars - which have been held in major cities from
New York and Philadelphia to San Francisco and Los
Angeles - Dave has designed and instructs
courses in communications and presentation skills for Cleveland
State University and other "halls of higher
learning." Yes, he really can be called The Nutty
Professor!
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As
a consultant, trainer and keynote speaker on the topics of
communication and presentation skills, Dave presents Talking
For Success for businesses and special interest groups.
These programs focus on the value of employing good humor and
personal creativity as conversational tools to build professional
and personal relationships, increase networking skills, and
improve customer service. He also teaches these skills to students
grades 6-12, colleges and universities, and senior centers via
video conferences through the Center for Interactive Learning and
Collaboration (CILC). |
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Dave's
third book, The Beatles In Cleveland, landed in the
National Top 40 for Biographies and Memoirs on Amazon.com
and hit No.1 for Items Sold In Northern Ohio. His live
program, The Beatles: A
Multimedia Pop Culture Presentation is a magical history
tour for schools, colleges,
universities, festivals and special interest groups.
He
has been interviewed on numerous national and regional television
and radio programs including The Beatle Years, Breakfast
with the Beatles and Beatle Brunch. He was also a
featured author at the New York Metro Fest for Beatles Fans.
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As
a comedy coach, author and consultant, Dave has been featured on
PBS Television and Radio, Chicago Tribune, Ohio Magazine, The
Hollywood Reporter, Cleveland Plain Dealer, U.S. News & World
Report, InsideBiz.com Magazine and many others. |
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