UH Hilo physics alumna produces comedy improv show in Hollywood
Alex Spell was a physics major at UH Hilo and a 2019 Writers Immersive Fellow at the Creative Lab Hawaiʻi. The result? Improv in Hollywood!
By Susan Enright/UH Hilo Stories.
Alex Spell, a graduate of the Creative Lab Hawaiʻi and an alumna of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, has combined her two loves of comedy and science to produce a one-hour improv series titled, “Did You Know?,” held at The Pack Theater in Hollywood, CA. The show runs every second Saturday of the month through May.
Spell was a physics major at UH Hilo and a 2019 Writers Immersive Fellow at the Creative Lab Hawaiʻi, a state agency to “build the state’s creative entrepreneurial capacity.” From the lab’s website:
Alexandria Spell began her career in comedy, acting, and writing in her hometown of Reno, Nevada. While working as a nurse and raising two children, Alex began doing standup, first as a hobby and then as a paid local act. Alex moved to Hilo, Hawai’i, to pursue a degree in Physics, and found her outlet in a fulfilling creative partnership with Orit Tashman. Alex and Orit have written a half-hour television comedy called Hella Poor. The show hopes to buck the normal trends of television with a diverse cast and biting wit. Hella Poor offers irreverent honesty about poverty, women, and the dream of upward mobility.
Tickets for “Did You Know?” are available online.
By Susan Enright, a public information specialist for the Office of the Chancellor and editor of UH Hilo Stories. She received her bachelor of arts in English and certificate in women’s studies from UH Hilo.
