Articles about learning and performing improv comedy.
We're excellent at observation due to our traits and The Neurodivergent Experience. Learn how to get even better at noticing details to level up skills like finding patterns & making connections.
Notice your skills in visual imagination and visual processing to make your scenes even better. You don't need hyperphantasia, either.
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.
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.
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?
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
Learn about misophonia - what it means to have this condition, and how it affects your improv practice.
Top-down thinking your second beats and game when you are a bottom-up thinker. What does that look like?
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.
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?