{"id":4948,"date":"2013-01-06T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/clemsonworld\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2013-01-06T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:02:09","slug":"turning-mock-turtle-soup-into-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/turning-mock-turtle-soup-into-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning \u2018Mock Turtle Soup\u2019 into \u2018Gold\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jason Underwood \u201904, Harrison Brookie \u201907, M\u201908, Meg Pierson \u201908\u00a0 and Ben Burris\u00a0 \u201911 were members of Clemson\u2019s improv comedy group, Mock Turtle Soup, they never dreamed that one day they would come together and form their own theater.<br \/>\nAlchemy Comedy Theater was created to perform and teach improv comedy. All of the members have day jobs, but have pooled their talents and experiences to form the only comedy improv theater in Greenville.<br \/>\nArtistic director Brookie is a secondary education graduate teaching at Southside International Baccalaureate High School. Underwood, class instructor, has a degree in architecture and works at Fluor Daniel. Pierson, Improv 201 instructor, graduated in history, and electrical engineering graduate Burris works at aeSolutions and is the group\u2019s assistant artistic director.<br \/>\nThey created a training center that has produced almost 50 students of comedy \u2014 some who have joined the theater. Performances are every Friday night at Coffee Underground. For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/alchemycomedy.com\/\">http:\/\/alchemycomedy.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jason Underwood \u201904, Harrison Brookie \u201907, M\u201908, Meg Pierson \u201908\u00a0 and Ben Burris\u00a0 \u201911 were members of Clemson\u2019s improv comedy group, Mock Turtle Soup, they never dreamed that one day they would come together and form their own theater. Alchemy Comedy Theater was created to perform and teach improv comedy. All of the members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[3296],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-winter-2013"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}