SAK Gorilla Theatre

04/15/2022

Game Library: “Hesitation Speech”

A fun way to combine a little randomness with the high stakes of a public speech or event....

A fun way to combine a little randomness with the high stakes of a public speech or event….

04/14/2022

Throwback Thursday to...

This week in Improv History: April 14, 1930, Pirandello’s play "Tonight We Improvise" has its Italian premiere in Turin

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04/12/2022

A Tuesday musing...

A (short and sweet) improv musing for your Tuesday...

“Were they acting? Get them to play” - Viola Spolin

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04/07/2022

Throwback Thursday to...

This week in Improv History: April 7, 1967, the Philippine Educational Theater Association was founded by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez

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04/04/2022

“O” is for “Offer”

O is also for...

In search of richer improv building blocks? Here are some ways to craft and inspire your offers…

03/31/2022

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Goodbye March...

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03/29/2022

A Tuesday musing...

An improv musing for your Tuesday...

“We need a ‘Fool’ so desperately. There’s so much fear. One of the things that’s pervasive in the city streets is fear. So to see improvisors get on stage... obviously they’re scared. The adrenaline’s pumping through their bodies, they’re doing things they’ve never done before—they should be scared. They do them anyway, and then if they fail, they survive and they bounce around like idiots and they goof off and it’s just contagious and we need it. We desperately need it in our society” - Rebecca Stockley quoted by Foreman and Martini

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03/24/2022

Throwback Thursday to...

This week in Improv History: March 24, 1926 Dario Fo was born, Italian improvisational and scripted practitioner, recipient of 1997 Nobel Prize

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03/22/2022

Your Tuesday musing...

An improv musing for your Tuesday...

“Play is about spontaneity. It is deeply transforming activity in which the primary goal is involvement” - Tian Dayton

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03/18/2022

Game Library: “Pop-Up Story Book”

A new game awaits...

This game requires a little rolling around on the floor but, if you’re physically up for it, “Pop-Up Story Book” can unlock delightfully whimsical stories.

03/16/2022

Caption time...

It's Caption Wednesday! (Meant for fun not meanness please.)

03/15/2022

An improv-related thought for your Tuesday...

An improv musing for your Tuesday...

Oral poets “improvised their performances according to their own interests and skills and the demands of a particular occasion. What was transmitted was not memorized texts at all but a stock of formulas at every level […] on which poets drew for their own creative performances. This was truly an oral mode of composition-in-performance in which, unlike written texts, there was no concept of a correct version. Each performance was unique and authentic in its own right” - Ruth Finnegan

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03/11/2022

Game Library: “Name Circle”

Some fun name games!

Here’s a super-sized ImprovDr Game Library entry with eight different name games!

03/08/2022

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

03/07/2022

“N” is for “Names”

And now for your first "N"

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but a rose without any name at all might cause you some issues when you’re trying to buy one at the florist…

03/04/2022

Game Library: “Tag-Team Song”

A Gorilla favorite!!!

Some thoughts on a short-form improv mainstay, “Tag-Team Song.”

03/02/2022

Time for a caption...

It's Caption Wednesday! (Meant for fun not meanness please.)

02/25/2022

Game Library: “Asides”

Considering the versatile dramatic conceit that is "Asides..."

Considering the versatile dramatic conceit that is “Asides…”

02/24/2022

Throwback Thursday to...

This week in Improv History: Feb 21, 1933, Keith Johnstone was born, English improv practitioner, author of Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, and creator of Theatresports

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02/21/2022

“M” is for “Mugging”

When is a mug not a mug...?

This ImprovDr entry explores the important distinction between self-conscious Mugging and more deliberately crafted theatrical moments that might look the same at first glance.

02/16/2022

It's caption time...!

It's Caption Wednesday! (Meant for fun not meanness please.)

02/12/2022

🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes as emcee, the players are introduced, the doors swing open, and something like this is happening: 5 dorks in the fog. We love our performers (we don't have a choice).

02/11/2022

Game Library: “Mantras”

If you're looking for a way to amp up the emotional voracity of your characters, look no further... I give you "Mantras."

If you’re looking for a way to amp up the emotional voracity of your characters, look no further… I give you “Mantras.”

02/09/2022

If it's Wednesday then it's time for a caption...

It's Caption Wednesday! (Meant for fun not meanness please.)

02/07/2022

“L” is for “Love”

Perhaps a fitting question one week before Valentine's day: Is there enough "Love" in your improv?

Is there enough “Love” in your improv?

02/03/2022

Throwback Thursday to...

This week in Improv History: Feb 4, 1999, the Upright Citizens Brigade opens its first space in New York

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02/02/2022

February is Black History Month. An annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. ❤️

01/27/2022

Throwback Thursday to...

This week in Improv History: Jan 28, 1921 Josephine Forsberg was born, U.S. improv practitioner and founder of Players Workshop

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01/25/2022

A Tuesday musing...

An improv musing for your Tuesday...

“Alan Arkin says that when a scene fails it is often because you tried to do too much by yourself. You did not listen enough” - Bernie Sahlins

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01/18/2022

It's Tuesday Muse-day...

An improv musing for your Tuesday...

“In the theatre of my vision every particle had changed, not only the structure of the stage. The self of the actor and its spontaneous creativity had the first call. Why should they make place to the self and the creativity of a playwright!” - Jacob Levy Moreno

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01/17/2022

We honor and commemorate the legacy of the remarkable Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who paved the way toward achieving social justice, civil rights and equality for all people. ❤️

01/10/2022

“L” is for “Levels”

Whether it's staging, verbal choices, emotions or content, there are undoubtedly a lot of "Levels" to consider on the improv stage.

Whether it’s staging, verbal choices, emotions or content, there are undoubtedly a lot of “Levels” to consider on the improv stage.

01/04/2022

Your Tuesday musing...

An improv musing for your Tuesday...

“The important thing is how good the show is onstage. That’s still our point – not that we get the material through improvisation, but that we get a certain kind of material you don’t get any other way.” - Del Close

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01/01/2022

Cheers! 🥂

12/31/2021

Game Library: “Freeze Frame”

It's the last new Game Library entry of the year!

Open eyes... and peek into the inner workings of "Freeze Frame."



(I'm in NYE shows at SAK tonight at 5:30, 7:30 and 10pm fyi!)

Open eyes… and peek into the inner workings of “Freeze Frame.”