The Improv Life: I Miss My Comedy Adventures

The Improv Life: I Miss My Comedy Adventures

[ad_1] The Improv Life: I Miss My Comedy Adventures I’ve been consuming Star Wars like a mother fucker during quarantine. Clone Wars, Rebels, The Mandalorian, the new Marvel Comics (The Darth Vader ones are lit), the old, decanonized Dark Horse Comics, Youtube clips of Obi Wan Kenobi killing Darth Maul for the second time, that…

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Three tips for Responding to Questions in Scenes

Three tips for Responding to Questions in Scenes

[ad_1] Three tips for Responding to Questions in Scenes There’s something I’ve felt quite conflicted about in improv: I am of the opinion that questions are an integral part of language and, when you think about them that way, it seems odd to avoid them in improv scenes. However, it is no secret that asking…

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The Living Newspaper by David Shepherd

The Living Newspaper by David Shepherd

[ad_1]  A constant in David Shepherd’s improv career was periodically revisiting his groundbreaking format, COMPASS (a “people’s theatre,” co-created with Paul Sills in 1955) and attempting to update it with the collaboration of improvisers who were in his orbit at that time. David continued conducting COMPASS workshops in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Ottawa, Boston,…

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