Empowering Women in Industry Video Chat

We would like to invite you, our Empowering Women in Industry community, to get together via zoom!  We can share & connect while asking questions and chatting about being essential to keeping the world running. We want to continue to be here for you! Join us and share how we can help EMPOWER you and your community! We are excited to have special guest Mary Hynes, discussing "The power of the “yes, and” mindset."

Mary is a professional improviser, educator and stage manager. Her performance and teaching career brings her back and forth between NYC, Chicago and LA. She is a faculty member with the storied Second City Training Center in Chicago, Toronto and LA.

After graduating with her BA in Theatre from Butler University, she discovered a love for helping students young and old discover their creative voices. The power of the “yes, and” mindset in improvisation teaches presence, acceptance, courage and creativity.

She is one of the pioneers of the role of virtual stage manager. During the pandemic, she was on a team of innovators with The Second City Training Center that assessed the needs, and implemented the solutions to keep theater vital and vibrant through trying times of isolation and uncertainty. She is now both highly revered and in demand as a remote operator, virtual stage manager, and facilitator for live and online events in education, entertainment and corporate workshops.

Mary uses her professional improvisation training to remain curious, adaptable and enthusiastic about what we can all accomplish across multiple time zones for our love of learning, playing and empowering each other to our highest potentials!