Hyperphantasia, Visual Imagination & Improv
Notice your skills in visual imagination and visual processing to make your scenes even better. You don't need hyperphantasia, either.
Jen deHaan
Jen deHaan founded StereoForest in 2024 to focus on creating comedy podcasts, audio dramas, and audio fiction series that blend scripted and improvised material. Jen has taught long form improv classes at/with World’s Greatest Improv School (WGIS), Compass Improv, Highwire Improv, and Queen City Comedy. She was also the WGIS Online School Director, and hosted a lot of improv jams.
Masking and Improv – Being the voice of reason
Have you had an issue being the voice of reason in scenes? Grounding a scene? This episode discusses what's "normal", weird, and how it can mess with our heads and scenes.
Committing to YOUR weird brain in improv
We are neurodivergent, and we can bring our best to scenes in so many different ways. How to commit hard to YOU, and reject self-comparison to others.
Fast and Slow Edit Moves in Improv
How does your neurodiversity (especially top-down and bottom-up thinking) affect the way you edit, and how and when you do so in a scene or set?
Masking and Performance: Character Matching (Peas in a Pod)
Are you a neurodivergent who masks? What are some of the common ways this influences your acting, improvising, and performance? Learn how neurodivergent masking can help in your peas in a pod or character matching scenes
On Misophonia & Improv with Sabrina Banes
Learn about misophonia - what it means to have this condition, and how it affects your improv practice.
Top-down thinking in improv for bottom-up thinkers
Top-down thinking your second beats and game when you are a bottom-up thinker. What does that look like?
Bottom Up Thinking & Plots in Improv
Improvising in plotty or plot-driven sets might not come as naturally to bottom-up thinkers. Let's analyze very specific aspects neurodivergence and improv with copious levels of detail, why don't we.
On being perceived during performance
Learn about contexts in which neurodivergent improvisers might feel uncomfortable being perceived... or comfortable, happy, and in their element. Do you like people seeing you doing stuff? And when?
What is neurodivergence?
And improv... really? Why, Jen? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?