Awarded "The Best Improv Teacher" and "Best Female Improviser" by the Austin Improv Collective, Shana Merlin has been a professional improviser since 1995, performing from Calgary to San Francisco to Atlanta to Las Vegas to London. Shana founded Merlin Works in 2003, providing custom training, interactive presentations, and comedy shows to businesses and organizations using improvisation and founded The Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation in 2008, offering improv classes to adults in central Texas. You can see Shana perform in the improv troupes Get Up and the winner of "Best Improv Troupe" in Austin Chronicle Readers Poll, Girls Girls Girls Improvised Musicals.