It's been a very good year for Improductions and its teams. We've performed in over 20 original showcases this year, have hosted a couple of great workshops, and have have been plugging away with bringing improv to the masses in Northwest Indiana.
We've decided to fund raise over the next year to allow us to continue…
I recently taught my Beyond Hamilton improv workshop to a bunch of eager and talented actors at the San Diego Improv Festival. We spent a lot of time rhyming and playing. At some point someone asked me, "What do you do if someone used the rhyme you were going to use?" The answer to that…
I remember sitting in my first or second class of a beginner improv program. My teacher, who was lovely and shared her burning passion for improv with everyone, told us:
In improv, you can do, say, or be anything you want to be!
All of the exercises we did supported that statement and it served me…
The Chicago Reader posted an article by standup comic Peter-johns Byrne as part of their "Worst In Chicago" issue titled "Why improv is neither funny nor entertaining, according to a stand-up comedian". Go ahead and read it for yourself and come back to this article. I'll wait.
When I read the title, I expected myself to…
At some point in every improviser's career, they come to crossroads and they ask themselves if continuing with improv is "worth it". Sometimes improv doesn't charge us like it used to and we begin to look as to reasons why that's the case. This could be a career, personal, or artistic query but usually…
I've been doing improv for the last 12 years now and I still feel like an idiot when I go out to start a scene. I've done hundreds of them - some of them great while others left something to be desired. I feel like I know nothing when I go out there but having…
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We're happy to announce that all of our current improv productions have been accepted into the Grand Rapids Improv Festival! Shows will be on Saturday November 4th, 2017! Tickets go on sale soon. We invite you to join us and enjoy all of the hilarity that abounds from different parts of the country in Grand…
One of the best tools to use when you're on stage is your body. It's such a simple thing to use. You use it every day but somehow it's completely negated when we go up on stage. We feel that we need to demonstrate our wit and comedic prowess through our words when our bodies…
Improvisers like to think of themselves as "smarter than the average bear". We're required to know a lot of trivial information as we perform in front of pop culture savvy patrons willing to through the most obvious (or obscure) suggestions at us at the top of a show or game. We devour a lot of…
In this segment, Nelson discusses how to overcome your fear of initiating scenes with help from Mick Napier's book "Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out".
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Any good improv instructor in improvisation will tell their students, "GO SEE SHOWS!" Here are 10 reasons to do so:
You will be supporting the local arts/improv theatre scene. Be a good actor by being a good "actor".
The people you support may actually support you back be attending your shows. It's called community…