Every piece of feedback has two layers. There’s the content, the actual information about what happened in the scene. And then there’s the framing, which is how that information arrives. The tone of voice, whether it was said in front…
You learn a new improv skill, you understand it, you could explain it to someone else in plain language, and then you get into a scene and your brain does the old thing anyway. The thing you did before you…
I heard this thing on a clip from the olympics: “I’m an evidence person, not an affirmations person” and I was like “damn, that’s why I really dislike the phrase “you got this.” And a lot of other phrases in…
“Get out of your head” is advice that almost every improviser has heard at some point. It makes sense as a goal, but it skips over something worth looking at: what your brain is actually doing when you’re in a…