Happy Birthday Coach!

Faculty
Written By Robert LeBlanc

In other news, today is our very own Co-founder, Coach Steve Corning’s birthday. Balderdash Academy wouldn’t be the same without Steve. He’s one of the driving forces behind the show.

Steve and Bob created Balderdash Academy. What it is today is nowhere near where it started. The name came from a brainstorming session in December of 2018 over dinner after a disc golf game at The Great Lost Bear in Portland, Maine. The dinner was at the Great Lost Bear, the disc golf game was at Bittersweet Ridge Disc Golf. They were trying to come up with an idea for a new improv company. We’re lucky. They entered their names into an anagram generator and came up with Shaved Newt Boobs. It could have been a lot worse.

After getting cast in the Chamber of Comedy at Maine Repertory Theater, they put the name aside until March 2019, where they started designing a new show around the name. The pandemic made them reevaluate the property again, and history was made.

Wish Steve a happy day. He deserves it.

Robert LeBlanc

ROBERT J LEBLANC is a member of the Dramatist Guild and has been performing and writing for various media since the 90s. He is an award-winning playwright, actor, voice actor, artist, and the leader, head writer, host, improviser, and producer of the online comedy ensemble, Balderdash Academy, and their catalog of shows. He is the lead writer, director, producer, and creator of the live comedy radio show, On the Air!, writer and producer of the Sleuths Mystery Radio podcast, and owner of the interactive mystery-comedy company Sleuths Mystery Entertainment. He writes in a number of genres with a focus on comedy and the use of comedy in drama. He recently finished series development and writing of a new forthcoming series for the audio entertainment company Realm. His work has been produced across the country.

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