Packed with improv lessons and techniques, this book invites its readers to share and grow and interact. It is written with care and its want to connect is welcoming. Capozzoli teaches you to teach better. Learn to scaffold curriculum, tailor lessons to address multiple intelligences and bolster each student by championing their instincts where playfulness abounds through simple connection. Exercises are devised to awaken the ensemble to be team-...

Based on hundreds of hours of professional workshops, Improv for Gamers provides fun and easy exercises designed to take your tabletop or live-action gaming group to the next level. Play one or two before your next session to get players warmed up and engaged, or take a deep dive into developing a particular skill! No improv experience required. You can strengthen the following skills: Improv for Gamers Second Edition features revised exercises a...

The Complete Hambook contains every essay ever published by the Hambook, including new never-before-seen essays. It is being sold at cost. Nobody has made money on this project. It is a piece of history. Scott Adsit, Zoe Agapinan, Corie Anderson, Robel Arega, Bill Arnett, Atra Asdou, Sarah Ashley, Meghan Babbe, Lee Benzaquin, Sam Bowers, Karl Bradley, Mike Brunleib, Alison Byrnes, Rayna Caskey, Dillon Cassidy, Jonah Cooper, Glo Chitwook, The Crow...

A funny and timely debut YA about the toxic masculinity at a famous improv comedy camp Seventeen-year-old Zelda Bailey-Cho has her future all planned out: improv camp, then Second City, and finally Saturday Night Live. She’s thrilled when she lands a spot on the coveted varsity team at a prestigious improv camp, which means she’ll get to perform for professional scouts—including her hero, Nina Knightley. But even though she’s hardworking ...

“Hank and Stella in Something From Nothing” is an engaging story that helps children laugh while they learn and improve through improv.Theatrical improv(isation) is, essentially, making something from nothing. Players create and perform shows simultaneously and in the moment, without a script, props, or costumes. And, the fundamental principles and skills of improv are as useful on stage as they are at play and in life!The story takes...

Second part to The Big Book of Improv Games What would you do with over 650 warmup games? Get your hands on the most comprehensive collection ever published. The product of years of research, The Big Book of Improv Warmups will amaze you as you flip through it, discovering hundreds of pages of games for skill-building, show prep, and just plain-old fun! Are you ready to become an Improv Powerhouse? Feed your passion for improv, go beyond the basi...

This is a deconstructive approach to improvised comedy, inspired by years of performance and teaching experience. Students who follow this program will not only learn what it takes to master improv, but will understand why certain intuitive techniques are successful: they will learn how to do improv, and why it works. They will know what to do to make a scene funny, and why it’s humorous. They will develop the ability to allow naturally occurri...

Directed not only toward actors, dancers, and other performing artists who draw upon improvisation as part of their craft, this Zen-infused memoir of a life lived creatively will pique the interest of anyone in search of liberation from self-limiting concepts. What does it mean to live in a body? What does it mean to improvise? Do we wonder whether we’re capable of improvising—to make up things as we go, step into the unknown, take a risk...

Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legends of Del Close Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close—cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco’s the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic, and “house metaphysician” for Saturday Night Live—influenced improvisational theater’s greatest comedic talents. His stud...

A fake U2 concert. A deranged hypnotist. A book signing by a dead author. Welcome to the wild world of Improv Everywhere. From the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride to the legendary Grand Central Freeze, Improv Everywhere has been responsible for some of the most original and subversive pranks of the Internet age. In Causing a Scene, the group’s agents provide a hilarious firsthand account of their mischievous antics. Learn how they created a...