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Playing Fifty
May 17th, 2010 No Comments
I do an improv warm-up exercise called “Age Walk.” As the players move randomly around the stage, I start to call out different ages, side coaching as the actors play themselves at age – three, then six, then twelve,
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Improvising Kids
April 5th, 2010 No Comments
It is so predictable the way most people who are “doing improv” will play children. They immediately start arguing and whining in fake “kid talk” playing annoying, dumb and argumentative, spewing conflict and denial all over the stage.
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Improv - The Long View
January 25th, 2010 2 Comments
As anyone who has perused the Laughter for a Change website can easily tell, I am a great believer in the extraordinary power of improvisational theater to change lives and even to change the world.
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Charlie Chaplin, Comedy Mentor
December 6th, 2009 1 Comment
Last week in a Laughter for a Change workshop with vets at the West Los Angeles VA Center, I showed clips from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush.”
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The Del Close Improv Marathon
August 20th, 2009 3 Comments
This past weekend I was in New York City for the 11th Annual Del Close Improv Marathon at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre. It was 72 hours round the clock of “long form” improv presented at five different venues
