The LaVon Wageman Show: Ep. 2: Baking Cupcakes and Megan's Favorite New York City Restaurants and Cafes

The LaVon Wageman Show is in full swing! Every Sunday, I am releasing a new interview on YouTube. I interview people on their passions; the things that get them through their days and weeks. I am so thrilled to share this passion filled project with the internet and am excited to see where it goes and how it takes shape! Below is my second interview with Megan Griffith. On this episode, we discuss one of her many passions, which is to bake!
Hope you enjoy!

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Happy Sunday!

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You Know.

I just performed in my first improv show ever at UCB, the Upright Citizens Brigade. The experience and training was enlightening and has improved my overall disposition, which was an extra and not expected bonus! I laugh more and say yes more and am more confident in my choices. It's like I'm a new person! 

People think improv is supposed to teach you to be funny. It really does not do that. What it does do, is give you the tools needed to make something out of opinions, reality, truth, and actions. Improv training is practically life training at it's core. Over the course of last month, I gathered that it is key to listen, to commit to the ideas and choices made by you and your team (in other words, be confident), to say "yes" often and always, and to accept that we do not need to know everything. I feel blessed and lucky to have dived into the unknown with a new group of talented and hilarious people in my 101 class. What a journey! And can't wait for what's to come next!  

Below is the UCB theatre in the East Village and a picture of some of my awesome classmates and teacher after the show.

The UCBeast Theatre

After the show at UCBeast with my teacher Jordan Klepper. 

Go see improv shows! Laughter is medicine for the soul!

Happiness, Pass it on.

Science of Happiness Project

I've been meaning to share this project I made last semester with some of my peers from NYU. It's a short film, which compares different means of expressing gratitude. Making this project made me SO HAPPY and hopefully when you watch it, you'll be happy too!!

A Taste of San Diego

Home at last! 

Trolley tracks, the Padres Stadium and the New San Diego Public Library on the right! 

Convention Center and Downtown San Diego

California sunrise

Balboa Park

"When I think of home I think of a place where there's love overflowing..." - from the musical The Wiz 

I am so thankful to say I have two places to call my home; San Diego and New York. While the two cities are tremendously different in stature and culture, they do share one characteristic that makes a home a home. In both homes, I am encompassed with love from family, friends, and the people I meet on a day to day basis. My relationship with my homes is one built out of respect. The respect is shaped different for each relationship, whether it be with a person, place or an object. But regardless, the respect is always present. The relationships built out of respect allow me to reap the benefit of feeling like I belong to a loving community. It all goes full circle and the initial respect produces mindfulness, confidence, pride, sincerity, and happiness. "Relationships thrive on mutual respect" - KW

Gratitude

I am spending my last semester at Tisch's Stonestreet studios, which is a unique film and television program, designed to immerse actors in the industry and introduce acting techniques for sit coms, dramas, voice-overs, and commercials. Not only has the program broadened my knowledge of the art of screen acting, it has also introduced me to new actors, who have become some of my dearest friends. I admire how my friends trust their work and are fearless when they act. 
One of my idols, Lucille Ball claimed, "I am not funny. My writers were funny. My direction was funny. The situations were funny. But I am not funny. I am not funny. What I am is brave..." Bravery is key for actors and it also aids the foundation of strong bonds of love and friendship. 
Great acting requires the utmost vulnerability and openness. And having a core group of supportive and professional friends at Stonestreet has allowed for my section to make leaps and strides in our work across the boards. 

Directing the Actor with Jen McCabe

Most of my Section at Stonestreet

Screen Acting and Production with Chris Modoono

Getting Started!!!

I've been wanting to start an official blog for over a year now! I am really looking forward to blogging about my thoughts and ideas, uploading photos and videos, and sharing recipes on this page! 

I am a senior at NYU and on my walks to school I pass through the beautiful Washington Square Park. Being a San Diego, California native originally, the color changing of the leaves always amazes me each fall. My mom grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. And in the fall, she would rake the leaves into a giant pile and then jump in it with her friends! She said it was a very inexpensive and fun form of childhood entertainment.
So go jump for fall!