Archive for March 2019
Improv Tips #107 – Make Your Partner Look Good (w/Lauren Pritchard) (2019)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, here at Improv Tips want to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Lauren Pritchard talks about a concept that is really crucial to long term success in improv – making your partner look good. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv…
Read MoreWorking at Play
[ad_1] On Friday night I performed in Cagematch, an improv show where two teams compete for audience votes. The winner (that was us!) performs again the following Friday. Some terrible photos of me, courtesy of my wife. Later on at the bar, a man came up to me. He told me he’d never seen an…
Read MoreImprov Tips: What Were You Thinking (w/ Chris Alvarado) (2019)
Start of Scene: 1:02 Start of Break Down: 5:16 In this episode of WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, Paul Vaillancourt and guest Chris Alvarado do a stand alone improv scene and then let you in on their thought process beat by beat – whether you do Short Form, Long Form, the Harold or some other type…
Read MoreDavid Shepherd’s Journals by Michael Golding
[ad_1] David Shepherd (October 10, 1924 – December 17, 2018) the co-founder of Playwrights Theatre Club, Compass (forerunner of Second City), the Improv Olympics and Canadian Improv Games, left behind a library of personal journals. David was diligent about making daily entries, a practice he started at thirteen, inspired by his father William Edgar Shepherd,…
Read MoreImprov Tips #106 – Take Care Of Yourself (w/ Chris Alvarado)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, here at Improv Tips want to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Chris Alvarado talks about taking care of yourself in a scene and how that actually helps your partner too. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting…
Read MoreCooking vs Baking
[ad_1] In my house, I do the lion’s share of the cooking. I can’t say it’s my favorite thing to do, but it’s not so bad. Plus, there are ways to make it less burdensome: It’s batchable. You can make a lot at once without loss of quality. It’s flexible. You can modify almost any…
Read MoreImprov Tips: What Were You Thinking (w/ Paul Vaillancourt and Keia McCarty) (2019)
Start of Scene: 1:02 Start of Break Down: 5:29 Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, here at Improv Tips want to help. In this week’s Improv Tips: What Were You Thinking Paul Vaillancourt and guest Keia McCarty do a stand alone improv scene and then let you in on their thought process…
Read MoreImprov Tips #105 – Your Life Is Up For Grabs (w/ Keia McCarty) (2019)
Skip the intro and get right to the tip: 1:21 Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, here at Improv Tips want to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Keia McCarty talks about bringing yourself to your improv work in a lot of different ways. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing…
Read MoreThe End of Experimentation
[ad_1] On his blog, Seth Godin writes (and this is the whole post): “The only way to learn from experience is to have different experiences. The very nature of an experiment is that there’s a chance you’re doing it wrong, or at least less ‘right’ than the way you usually do it. Which leads to…
Read MoreImprov Blog
[ad_1] There are many improv styles and groups in the world and each has it’s own relationship with female characters and players. From my many encounters, here are some things that I think we can do as women for women to help us all have a super time on stage. And by women, I mean…
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