
Beneficial Exercises & Icebreakers for New Groups of Performers

Icebreakers. They're common in an acting class, at the top of an improv jam, or maybe when a team or cast is just getting to know each other. Some people love 'em, some people hate 'em.

Articles about learning and performing improv comedy.

Icebreakers. They're common in an acting class, at the top of an improv jam, or maybe when a team or cast is just getting to know each other. Some people love 'em, some people hate 'em.

If you improvise with or teach more than 10 people, you've probably done improv with someone that experiences alexithymia. Learn to support yourself or others when working with emotions in scenes.

Verbal processors do so to learn and understand new concepts and idea. But what about when they're improvisers.

Getting notes and giving notes - and having them understood by everyone - can be difficult when there is a communication gap between neurotypes

Improvising plot-driven sets might not come quite as naturally to bottom-up thinkers. Figure out the type of thinker you are, and learn how it affects your improv and acting practice

Using visual imagination can help your improv scenes, but also help you remember details better. Part 2 of Ep. 10: Hyperphantasia, Visual Imagination & Improv.

It's hard to notice the unusual at the top of an improv scene. Learn when and how to do it! Even if you're unusual too, like me! For EVERYONE: how to communicate better with your scene partners.

Learn about the social communication style differences between humans that can affect how you are understood or misunderstood in and outside of scenes. Research! Science! Humans!

Have you had an issue being the voice of reason in scenes? Grounding a scene? Learn what's "normal", weird, and how it can mess with our heads when doing scenes

Noticing the unusual at the top of an improv scene can be hard. Learn when and how to do it, especially if you're unusual too. And for everyone: this is how to communicate better with scene partners.