Life is profoundly sad. It is filled with loneliness, with regrets, lost chances, sad memories, words you can never take back, friends you’ll never see again, fractured pieces of your Self floating across the ocean of Life. But on the stage, you forget. You forget the profundity and the seriou . . . Read more

Short form improv is the most popular form of improv, thanks to shows like Whose Line is it Anyway?. In some ways sketch comedy like SNL is closer to Short Form than Long Form. Short form scenes are shorter (2 mins) with a much stricter structure and hence short form improv is easy to perform on tel . . . Read more

This 301 class is about game, the backbone of all Improv scenes. We talked about the importance of setting up the base reality. We started with a warm up called the Robot Game. This game involves two people and these are the only lines they’re allowed to say Player 1: I am ... Player 2: I am . . . . Read more

We talked about how it is possible to play a character that is either close to you, completely opposite of you. Both are completely valid options to play. And by making choices for what character to play, the character itself can become the game in the scene. The important thing is to make strong ch . . . Read more

VAPAPO is a character creation technique created by Jill Bernard, the author of Small Cute Book of Improv. Voice Atittude Posture Animal Prop Obsession The idea of VAPAPO is that by strongly choosing each of the 6 traits it is possible to create an entirely unique character in each scene. Further, t . . . Read more

Laban categorized human movement into four component parts: Space Time Weight Flow Each of those parts has two elements: Space is either direct or indirect. Speed is either quick or sustained. Weight is either heavy or light. Flow is either bound or free. In class, we mainly focused on the eight eff . . . Read more

We learnt about the various stock characters in the old Italian troupe of Comedia dell’arte. The goal is to express a character using their physical mannersisms and try and use these characteristics in your act. Pantalone A suspicious miser. He is always hunched over, bent head, conniving, han . . . Read more

We played some theater games to learn how to not get self conscious while on the stage and be more aware and have a better stage presence. Mirroring, physical and vocal Kitty wants a spot Green light, red light Who am I? Scence on scene Animals Throwing Knives Emotional Symphony Voices . . . Read more