Description
Have you ever wanted to hide or kill yourself after doing a bad improv show? Have you thought you were crazy for feeling fear before, during or after a show? Do you judge your fellow improvisers on stage? Do you want to experience more joy in improvising? Improv Therapy is an honest and insightful book about the things improvisers don’t want to discuss: their feelings. Improvisation is as much about technique as it is what’s inside your head. Improv Therapy takes a look at the improviser’s mind and what blocks improvisers on stage, and gives them practical advice to overcome their issues so they can become the improviser they always dreamed of being.
Written by Jimmy Carrane, host of the Improv Nerd podcast and co-author of Improvising Better: A Guide for the Working Improviser. He teaches his award-winning Art Of Slow Comedy improv classes in Chicago.
PDF: 52 pages
Published by Jimmy Carrane, 2014.
Mary Nelligan –
Brilliant! A gold mine of wisdom here for anyone involved in a creative process or struggling with the human condition. Jimmy’s relatable, brutally honest take on artistic collaboration and its accompanying fear, doubt, shame and joy is a must read for aspiring and professional improvisers as well as the rest of us improvising through life as spouses, parents, friends and colleagues. The improv community is lucky to have a performer and teacher with this level of insight and compassion.