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Apr 29
2 min

Act Like You Give a Damn

If you're an improviser or improv student, you'll get plenty of tips about how to do scene work. You'll get them from directors,...

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Apr 27
2 min

What's the Point of Performing Improv?

To do it well. To expand the boundaries of the form. To excel. To create something wonderful, surprising, unique, solid and fun. To solve...

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TaoBlog

Sep 22, 2020
1 min

Forgetting to Remember

Here's a thing that many improvisers and improv students eventually learn as they ascend to competency: Connection. We must connect with...

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TaoBlog

Sep 17, 2020
2 min

Car. Bomb. How Do You Explode?

Readers of my first book (and some lucky students) will have heard me say this, but it's true nonetheless: Every time you start your car,...

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TaoBlog

Sep 13, 2020
2 min

Virtual Quandary

How can you perform improv without a physical space in which to perform and interact — both with the audience and with other improvisers?...

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TaoBlog

Jun 19, 2020
2 min

May You Improv in Interesting Times

Improv is good for bad times. That’s the funny thing about comedy.

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So Old It's New: Maybe Older Players Do Get It

TaoBlog

Jun 19, 2020
1 min

So Old It's New: Maybe Older Players Do Get It

Those who don't know comedy history are doomed to repeat it.

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Randomness vs Chaos: The Lottery or the Weather

TaoBlog

Jun 19, 2020
2 min

Randomness vs Chaos: The Lottery or the Weather

Use randomness in the moment, and then use chaos when the moments begin to make sense.

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