MY GOAL IS TO GET YOU INto TROUBLE.

How?

ACT BEFORE you THINK.

Somewhere along the line, we’ve become focused on the wrong things—trying to control and manipulate our circumstances and our partners to achieve a specific outcome. We’re working for the result. We want others to think we are “good” (actors, people, whatever), so we only let them see the aspects of us we want them to see. What we think they want us to be, or do. What we think is going to get us the job.

But what if we could reconnect to our organic impulses and behavior by bringing ourselves back to ONLY this moment? And opening ourselves to whatever is there? To begin with agreement, and then respond truthfully WITHOUT thinking? To take reasoning and plotting out of the equation, leave ourselves alone, and imagine “What if…?”

Then, DO IT and see what happens.

Improv makes this possible.

BUT…

‘I already know how to act.’

Good for you for seriously pursuing your craft. Difficult as it can be to accept, however, there is always more to discover. There are different ways in, and what works for some may not work for others. Most of us are are too quick to abandon the basics—the fundamental work gets no love.

Yet, at our core, we actors are experience junkies. In a perpetual state of engagement. Ever curious. Hungry for something not yet known—about ourselves and our world.

Improv creates opportunities to make these discoveries. When responding truthfully in the moment to unrehearsed, unscripted circumstances, we find out how well we truly know ourselves, and how well we’ve actually mastered our craft.

CHOOSE

TO BE AUTHENTIC.

I dare you.

Improv won’t let you hide. It puts truth front and center, and reveals the authentic you, unanticipated moment by unanticipated moment. And THAT is the person we want to see.

Revisiting the fundamentals can be the scariest thing. We feel loss of control, and even embarrassed when we realize we don’t have all the answers—especially for something we’ve been doing for a long time. Yet, it is precisely the place where you uncover what is uniquely you. Your true impulses. Where you are most real—generous, selfless and available.

Show yourself by bravely improvising. Say “Yes!”

REdiscover

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

Story Building

Give & Take

Attention & Focus

Intention

Actor’s Faith