It's 2015! About time to update the Improv As Improv Does Best curriculum. Enjoy! Intro to Improv Curriculum 2015 (PDF) Character & Emotion Curriculum 2015 (PDF) Patterns & Games Curriculum 2015 (PDF) Long Form Performance Curriculum 2015 (PDF) For links to individual lessons and activities, go to the full Curriculum page.
We want to fill our blank stages with imagined environment. We want to engage physically in that environment to help visualize the imagined. And - most importantly - we want to be emotionally affected by where we are and what we're doing. That's Improv As Improv Does Best. Our fellow player(s) and how they emotionally […]
Don't be the improver who initiates a scene by running to center stage and delivering a premise. Don't be an improviser in a scene where two players stand shoulder-to-shoulder, cheating-out, and talking about something not in-the-moment. Don't be a point in the arch of a group game where improvisers stand in a semi-circle and discuss […]
A fun Pack show featuring Nick Leveski and Patrick Gantz having a lot of fun endowing each other and reacting to one another. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hV5VtQrImA?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360]
Here's a scene from a Pack show I did with Nick Leveski, a seasoned Chicago improviser. This scene evoked a huge laugh from the audience. Like many stage-to-video improv moments, the laugh gets lost in translation. But I believe I know what the audience liked. We didn't explain the scene; we lived the scene. When […]
Feeling about active endowments. That's Improv As Improv Does Best. It ain't easy. That balance between making up imagined details and committing to feeling about imagined details is tough to manage. Already we're trying to see our world's details instead of thinking up details, but we also have to care about those details in-the-moment. Like […]
The environment is fleshed out and experienced. Characters' endow and react to endowments through their Personal Game filters. [wpvideo KEEqG5MB] From my Johnsons Full Show 9.21.14 featuring, Lauren Serpa and Shawn Hambright
A split screen game. Two worlds. Echoed roles. And leveraged language. [wpvideo 5PbgT9mH] From my 2014 District Improv Festival "Boldly Go, Boldly Follow" workshop featuring Coonoor Behal, Pete Bergen, Jamie Bingner, Christine Crocker, John Heiser, Scott Holden, Jeff Hughes, J.J. Jackson, Patricia Kostiuk, Scott Kostiuk, Colleen McKenna, Ellen Reiterman, Sara Rouhi and Kate Symes
Players build a pattern by heightening the initiating sequence of perspectives through a new lens. [wpvideo 6PFRmbbR] From my 2014 District Improv Festival "Boldly Go, Boldly Follow" workshop featuring Coonoor Behal, Pete Bergen, Jamie Bingner, Christine Crocker, John Heiser, Scott Holden, Jeff Hughes, J.J. Jackson, Patricia Kostiuk, Scott Kostiuk, Colleen McKenna, Ellen Reiterman, Sara Rouhi […]
A twisted To The Ether. [wpvideo Yb193AHu] From my 2014 District Improv Festival "Boldly Go, Boldly Follow" workshop featuring Coonoor Behal, Pete Bergen, Jamie Bingner, Christine Crocker, John Heiser, Scott Holden, Jeff Hughes, J.J. Jackson, Patricia Kostiuk, Scott Kostiuk, Colleen McKenna, Ellen Reiterman, Sara Rouhi and Kate Symes