Tonight pre-show The Coalition taught me three new warm-up games. I loved them. I don't know who came up with them but thank you whoever you are. Here's The Deal. Yes, And. I Know, Right?! I Need Three Things Chain. Hype People Here's the evolving list of Warm-up exercises.
We want to avoid conflict, debate and negotiation in our improv scenes. The audience knows we're making it up - building something from nothing - they don't want to see us arguing over imagined reality; they want to see us react to an accepted reality. What's the best way to avoid arguing? Acceptance! Agreeing to […]
Like the 5 Things warm-up? You'll love this one. Or so you will if you're like I was when exposed to this warm-up tonight by Matt Newman. Looking for a nice in-your-head out-of-your-head patterns-on-patterns warm-up?
Whatever we have to say on an improv stage can be spun into gold with enthusiastic agreement. So we shouldn't feel like we have to deliver some killer creative line to start a scene. We should remember, in fact, that what we bring authenticity - what we care about - however mundane - is rich […]
This was my favorite Organic game from my Spring 2018 Patterns & Games Class. There's just so much to love. This one could never be rewritten as a sketch, and that's an asset to me here. [wpvideo AGWOBpmT] It was born collaboratively in-the-moment with an ending no one set out to see but felt too entirely perfect […]