When most people hop on a Metro Transit bus, they have a destination in mind. When Tane Danger hops on a Metro Transit bus, he rides the entire route from start to finish, and back again. Never fully considering stopping.
Why?
This year Danger launched a web series called "Hey, Where Does This Bus Go?" He's gained appreciation for what he calls the "gracious, generous, and heroic" Metro Transit bus drivers, while conversing with fellow riders.
Danger is the unique improv artist who's managed to use his art to help civic do-gooders tell their stories and educate people through his Theater of Public Policy. Danger and his co-founder launched the specialty plays in St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN, as a way to creativly share expert advice from within any given industry--like gun control--and then use improv with his acting troupe to take over the stage and teach through comedy scenes. He admits, some topics are easier to add humor and shake, like water quality, versus others such as incarceration. Danger says his group will never use humor to punch anyone down who's already out. He says the actors find ways to bring out the "humor in systems that don't do what we want them to do."
Eating cake at Capital Grille while chatting with Roshini on his birthday, Danger shared that if Minneapolis distillery Tattersall wanted to name a Campari conconction after him, he'd welcome the honor. After all, you can find him drinking plenty of negronis in the summer. And by plenty he assures, "that's a safe amount."
Roshini predicts that his web series on the bus will get picked up by Netflix. Until then, look him up online at t2p2.net and listen to his appearance on Real Leaders.