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January 4, 2024
Find the Love in Your Improv Scenes

When we watch an improv team or a person on stage who loves improvising, it can be contagious. If we are having fun, the audience is having fun. But often, I forget to bring the joy and bring the love to what I am doing, both on stage and in life. In my improv classes and workshops, we […]

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July 15, 2015
The Best Way to Give a Gift To Your Scene Partner

Improvisers are told all the time how important is to "give gifts to your scene partners," but are rarely shown how, leaving them dazed and confused. I am no different. At times I am confused by it, too. Certainly, I been around long enough that I know a good gift on stage when I see one, […]

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June 30, 2015
5 Tips to Decide If You Should Walk-On in an Improv Scene

Nothing frustrates me more than watching a perfectly good scene be ambushed by an unnecessary walk-on. We are all familiar with the scene where a couple is out to dinner at a restaurant and then the zany waiter ambushes the scene and the scene ends up becoming all about the zany waiter and has nothing […]

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April 24, 2014
Glued to the Back Line in Improv Scenes

We have all been that person stuck on the back line during an improv show terrified to step out and do a scene. We stand there, unable to move our bodies. We’re paralyzed, convinced we have been crazy-glued to the back wall, and we only become unstuck when the show is over. Sometimes we are […]

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