Lights, Camera… Improv!
Several blogs ago I wrote about our wonderful and lovely community. Well, now you can see a bit of it in action. KLRU with Director Mario Troncoso attempts to delve into our world with an…
Category: Student Blog
How to Find Inspiration When You’re All Out
Being on all the time is exhausting and physically and mentally impossible. So what do you do when you’re not “feeling” it? How do you make sure you’re bringing your best when you don’t feel…
Can You Come Out and Play?
Chelley’s Improv Rules The beauty of improv is that it’s play for grown ups. Every improviser is trying to remember how to play. When we’re a child playing comes naturally. We don’t edit ourselves. We…
Trust Fall into Improv
I won Maestro. (Maestro is an elimination improv game show played every Saturday at 10:00 pm at The Hideout, a mainstay of Austin Improv.) Those words keep ringing in my ears because I still can’t…
Improv Is Not A Race, It’s A Marathon
44 hours? 44 Hours of insanity– uh, improv. Over the weekend, The Hideout Theatre had their annual improv marathon. It began 4 years ago and has been a must see/do ever since. Let me explain.…
Let’s Get Physical
Character is something we all strive for. Whether it’s in the moral world (That kid’s got character!) or in the performers world. And sticking with character once you’ve found it is incredibly difficult. Often as…
Listen Like a Thief
Our senses connect us to the world. When one fails the others heighten. But I’d argue that as a performer, particularly as an improviser, the most important of the senses is hearing. In acting class…