Shira Piven's Creative Superpower

Published: March 3, 2018, 3:25 a.m.

Today's guest on "ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky" is writer, director, actor, teacher, creator, and innovator, Shira Piven. Shira's directed the motion picture \u201cWelcome to Me,\u201d with Kristen Wiig, and episodes of Amazon\u2019s \u201cTransparent\u201d and \u201cOne Mississippi.\u201d She currently works with Tim Robbins\u2019 Actors Gang Prison Project, teaching commedia dell\u2019arte to inmates in California prisons. Shira\u2019s the daughter of improv pioneers Joyce and Byrne Piven, and is the sister of actor Jeremy Piven, and is married to Oscar-award winning director and Second City alum Adam McKay. We discussed passion, what a director\u2019s job is, collaboration, the untapped superpower of creativity, and growing up in \u201cByrne Piven\u2019s House of Digression.\u201d This chat flies all over the place. Of course it does, it\u2019s ADD Comedy with Dave Razowsky.