The Wayward Twigs originally started out as a theater group. Always up for an adventure into the unknown they coined the phrase "script driven improvisation", an attempt to make classic productions appear to be totally "off the cuff" so to speak. A disastrous production of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds left the thespian quartette wondering if it was their "controversial" and "groundbreaking" approach or just the flat out lack of man-power that left their audience so dreadfully confused. After much soul searching, a group trip to the Grand Canyon, and more than a few gallons of organic coconut water the four artists found their way into the warm embrace of the wings of the Phoenix and rose out of the ashes of one broken dream and into the arms of another. "We were reborn in that canyon". "We left a whole lot of baggage down there man, ...we learned a lot about ourselves, about each other, ...and about traveler's insurance".