This week we look at communicating with each other during a show, making sure the audience is on the same page as your team, and marrying different styles of play! Find more at: www.laurenhasthree.com www.adlibcomedy.com www.facebook.com/improvteachers
This week I explore vocabulary in your own group, how to recover from hesitation in a scene, and why improv is about being in service of others! You can find this and more on Facebook and Twitter!
It's Tuesday and ... Kat Kenny is our guest! Kathleen Kenny is the Improv Director & Education Director at Bob Carter’s Actor’s Rep in West Palm Beach where she’s been teaching short form and long form improvisation to improvisers of all levels for the past 10 years as well as acting classes for over 15 years. She currently plays with Actors’ Rep house team Friends with Benefits and understated as well as Mod 27’s Bananas Republic. She’s been doing her lotto show Get Lucky with Kat for about...
Great first show of 2019! Looking forward to learning together.
This episode is all about auditions! Some takeaways and tips on how to run an improv audition and how empathy plays a role!
Episode 5 and this time host Lauren Morris gives herself notes! Listen and learn why it's important for leaders to understand the need to own up to their own shortcomings, how to do it, and give themselves notes!
This episode, Lauren Morris, discusses the importance of keeping energy going on stage versus stopping it suddenly. She also dives into why it's important to develop trust and camaraderie off stage makes your work better on stage. Find more at www.adlibcomedy.com and www.laurenhasthree.com Facebook: @improvteachers
This week, Lauren Morris discusses tangible elements you can look for in an improv audition. She also discusses steps to take when implementing artistic change and how empathy is a "must have" for directors. To learn more you can visit: www.facebook.com/improvteachers www.adlibcomedy.com www.laurenhasthree.com
Welcome back to Improv Teachers: Director's Edition! I delve once again into our Saturday night show. In this episode, I discuss the importance of edits, bold choices, and fun. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, and YouTube.
It's Tuesday and... Paul Vaillancourt returns to the program! Improvised Movie is the topic of this podcast. Paul and I both teach it, love it, and perform it so I wanted to dive into the world of movie! You can find Paul all over social media with the handle "whatsupwithPV" and learn more about Revolution Theater at https://therevolutiontheater.com/!
Hi and welcome to what I hope is the first of many episodes! I'm your host Lauren Morris. I am also the founder and director of AdLib Theatre. Just like with the Improv Teachers podcast, I wanted to take a closer look into the world of artistic directors. What do we look for when performers take to the stage? How can we give clear notes? What goes on behind the scenes? These are some of the questions we will be examining in these short episodes. Every week or so, I will give you a recap of our s...
It's Tuesday and... Louis Kornfeld is our guest! Louis Kornfeld began improvising way back in 2003, when both his phone and online presence were at the forefront of millennium culture. He's been a proud member of the Magnet Theater since it opened its doors, having logged countless hours as a performer, intern, house manager, member of 'The Boss,' Megawatt director, and (for the past twelve years) teacher of improvisation. What can he say? He loves it. In addition to improv, Louis is also an awa...
It's Tuesday and... Caitlin Kunkel is this month's guest! Caitlin Kunkel is a comedy writer and satirist. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Public Radio International and other places on the vast internetz. Caitlin is represented by Susan Raihofer of the David Black Agency. She is the co-founder and editor of the comedy and satire site for female writers, The Belladonna. She created the online satire writing program for The Second City and teaches month...
It's Wednesday and we have a special episode! Join Max McCal of Endgames Improv on this deep dive into coaching and the form known as the Slacker!
It's Tuesday and... Woody Fu is our guest!Woody Fu is an actor, sketch comedian, writer and improviser living in Brooklyn. He has performed on the Boom Chicago stage in Amsterdam. His one-man show Asian Gracefully has gone up at the UCB, PIT, Magnet, and Annoyance Theaters in New York, and toured in Phoenix, Austin, and Philadelphia. He draws comics, made an online choose-your-own-adventure dating game called Escape From F–k Zone, and is a professional DJ. Find Woody at www.woodfu.com
It's Tuesday and... Josh Nicols is back as our guest! We invited Josh back to discuss more teaching and coaching improv! Josh has been performing improv for 25 years. He co-founded Spectacles Improv Engine, created the Orange County Improv fest and co-founded The Improv Cup, a charity improv tournament in its 7th year. He performs with Ounce of Behavior and Community Theatre 3000. He focuses on organic grounded improv as a student, teacher, and performer. You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and...
Episode 41: Our guest is John Gebretatose! John rose from the ranks of a HUGE Improv Theater student, to a HUGE Improv instructor. He trained and worked at Brave New Workshop. He has performed stand-up comedy in the Twin Cities for over nine years. He is currently part of one of the hottest new improv groups, Blackout, and also a founding member of Late Nights Minneapolis With Joe Rapp. John has taught improv workshops internationally, coached improv groups and currently teaches at HUGE in addit...
It's Tuesday and... Laura Manasewich is our guest! Laura hails from East Hartford, CT. She holds a BA in Communication from Western New England College, which is now a University! She has studied improv in CT with Hartford Stage, and Claire Zick, and in NYC at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where she is a student in their Advanced Study program. She has studied stand-up comedy with Improv Boston, and comedic writing with Gotham Writers’ Workshop and Second City. She has performed througho...
It's Tuesday and... Neil Curran is our guest! Neil has been teaching and performing improv both in Ireland and abroad for many years. Aside from running improv courses for people from beginner to advanced level, Neil also runs bespoke courses. Outside of Ireland, Neil has taught in London, Brussels, Shanghai, San Francisco, Barcelona, Krakow and San Jose. Neil has taught at the Slapdash Festival London, Barcelona Improv Festival, Improfest Krakow and San Jose Improv Festival. Neil has also provi...
Our August episode is ready! Betsaida LeBron is our guest. Here is her bio from her website: My passion is creating art as a performer and helping others create art as a teacher. At a young age I began entertaining family and friends performing improvised productions in my parents’ living room and staging elaborate improvised puppet shows with homemade puppets and sets with my siblings throughout Northern California. I discovered improv by accident in 2009 while studying in Spain and never looke...
It's Tuesday and... Jimmy Carrane is our guest! Jimmy Carrane was not raised by wolves. He did, however, grow up in a house where he wasn’t encouraged to express himself. This is very similar to being raised by wolves except wolves always get to be wolves. Except when they’re in sheep’s clothing. The good news is, Jimmy’s early years as a non-wolf in non-expressive clothing changed in 1986 when a chubby, insecure, 19-year-old Jimmy drove his parent’s Buick Station wagon to Chicago. In Chicago, h...
It's Tuesday and... Caitlin Steitzer is our guest! Caitlin Steitzer is originally from Seattle, WA and brings over a decade of improv experience to the Magnet Theater. She has been fortunate enough to perform all over New York, as well as in exotic towns like Detroit, Phoenix, Rochester, Seattle, and Prague, Czech Republic. She feels incredibly lucky to have studied with such amazing people as (in alphabetical order by last name) Rick Andrews, Russ Armstrong, Armando Diaz, Megan Gray, Ed Herbstm...
It's Tuesday and... Will Hines is our guest! Will Hines is an actor, writer and director in Los Angeles. He performs and teaches at the UCB Theatre, where he started in NYC in 1999. You’ve seen him on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Community, Brooklyn 99, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer. He’s been in a bunch of videos for College Humor, FunnyOrDie and UCBComedy.
It's Tuesday and... Adal Rifai is our guest! Adal Rifai has been performing improv in Chicago since 2007. You can see Adal at iO with the house team Revolver, in the weekly show Whirled News Tonight (iO) and around the U.S. with Pudding-Thank-You and El Guapo . Past iO credits include Swim Buddies, Our Feature Presentation: The Improvised Movie, Radical Concept and Hunter Family Crest. He has performed at Second City as a member of Twisty, HouseCo. and SketchCo. Along with performing Adal also c...
It's Tuesday and... Asaf Ronen is our guest! Asaf Ronen is the author of Directing Improv: Show the Way By Getting Out of the Way and has taught improvisation in Canada, Great Britain, Norway and over half of The United States. Asaf was a producer on TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP, a documentary on legendary improvisers TJ & Dave that premiered at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival in 2009 and helped develop the improvised film Days of Delusion with director Scott Myers. His performance wor...
It's Tuesday and... Stacey Hallal is our guest! Stacey has been performing, teaching, and directing improv and sketch comedy in Portland and Chicago over the past ten years and has appeared and taught at over 25 comedy festivals across the United States and Canada. While in Chicago, Stacey complete the iO Chicago, Annoyance, and Second City training centers. She went on to complete the prestigious Directing Program at Second City where she also taught improv and writing to adults and kids as a m...
It's Tuesday and... Kevin Mullaney is our guest! Kevin is the founder of the Improv Resource Center, a company dedicated to the art of improvisational theater and improv comedy. Kevin is the head teacher of the IRC and often travels around the country teaching workshops. Kevin has taught improvisation for 20 years starting at iO Theater in Chicago, later at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in New York and more recently Under the Gun Theater in Chicago. He is the host of the Improv Resource ...
It's Tuesday and... Susan Messing is our guest! Susan Messing, a NJ native and graduate of Northwestern University’s Theatre School, has been an improviser and comedian for almost thirty years. She is an alumna of the iO Theatre, Second City’s Mainstage, and a founding member of Chicago’s infamous Annoyance Theatre. Susan created and has taught her curriculum at iO and iO West, The Annoyance Theatre, The Second City, and around the globe. Susan is an adjunct instructor for DePaul University, The...
It's Tuesday and.... Karen Graci is our guest! Karen Graci is a proud native of Buffalo, NY, Karen performed for Chicago’s The Second City for more than three years. While touring the US and abroad with The Second City National Touring Company, Karen was grateful to perform in The Second City’s first-ever USO Tour, entertaining American troops in Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. She was also a resident cast member in The Best of Second City at The Flamingo Hotel in Las...
It's Tuesday and... Amey Goerlich is our guest! Currently a Teacher & Performer at M.I. Westside Comedy in Santa Monica, CA Recently taught at San Diego Improv Festival, Voodoo Comedy in Denver CO and will be teaching at The Torch Theatre in Phoenix AZ and at Improv Utopia West in May 2017. She is also the co-creator of Humans Being card game (an improv card game). Humansbeingcardgame.com UCB New York Performer 2001-2016: Krompf, Indie Cage Match (Host & Producer), Best Cupcakes in the W...
