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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
There’s an inadvertent side effect to taking an improv class and that is that you’re now a member of the improv community. Whether you like it or not. And this community is world wide and…
You would think that improvised singing would be a snap for someone who’s sung professionally on several stages but in actuality it’s quite daunting. It’s true that in some respects it’s easier then coming to…