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How to start an improv scene without backstory or exposition
Starting a scene with two people standing on stage asking “who are you?” or “what are we doing here?” is one of the fastest ways to lose your audience. And if you’ve done it, you already know how that feels. Backstory and long explanations make sense when you’re writing fiction. You need to get the […]
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February 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Five Vocal Exercises for Better Improv Characters
Many improvisers, especially newer ones, might feel some pressure to do “funny voices.” Those big character voices that you hear in sketches and such, like adopting a high-pitched squeak or a low gravelly tone or something like that. But (drumroll)… you do not need to do this to do really good improv. You can perform […]
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November 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Own Your Weirdness: A Guide to Really Good Improv (Performances)
We spend a lot of time in improv trying to be good. Trying to do really good improv. We take classes, we get notes, and we watch performers we admire, trying to figure out how they do what they do. This process can sometimes lead us down a path of trying to be less like […]
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October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Believable Characters Need a Point of View… and Here’s How
Many have a goal like this for an improv scene… be clever or funny. Be witting, be surprising, be “big”, do some voice, do something unexpected. You get it. While those things can be great, they are usually not what makes a character truly memorable… or at least, not on their own. The thing that […]
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September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The Power of Silence: Three Exercises to Improve Your Acting
Many of us got into improv because we like words. We love witty banter, sometimes a clever little monologue in the middle of a scene, and the fun of building a story through conversation. But sometimes, that strength can also be a crutch we use in lieu of good acting. It is so easy to […]
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September 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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3-Step System & Exercise to Manage Self-Criticism in Improv
That voice in our heads, the inner critic, can be pretty relentless during improv scenes and sets. It might be telling you your idea was bad, or you’re not being funny enough. Maybe that you just ruined the scene or show. For a long time, I thought the only way to deal with this voice […]
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August 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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An Improv Workout: 6 Exercises to Build Your “Failure Muscle”
In a recent episode, 7 Scene Hacks to Help When You Make a Mistake, we talked about the idea that the path to getting good at improv to rack up ten thousand “failures” instead of trying to avoid these “mistakes”. I provided 7 hacks to help in these scenarios. And this leads to a very […]
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August 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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How Forgetting Can Help to Get Out of Your Head in Improv
You’ve probably done an improv exercise that trains you to remember details in a scene. For example, redo a scene you did and try to recall every sentence. Or associate words in a list and everyone tries to regenerate the word association list around a circle. And we all want to win, right? That makes […]
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August 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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7 Scene Hacks to Help When You Make a “Mistake”
There is a different way of thinking about getting better at improv. Failure is one of the best ways to learn new skills (this is scientific research, not just me talking). Duration, or number of hours doing a thing, is not. So when you accumulate failures, and learn from them (due to immediate feedback), you […]
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August 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Improving Communication Skills, Improvise With Anyone
“I do not need to learn to communicate with men on my improv team because I am not a man.” That seems wrong, right? We know that to be a successful team member, we have to communicate with everyone. And yet, I have heard alternate versions of this idea from well-intentioned people. People I trust […]
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August 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Mind Blank on Stage? A 3-Step Reboot for Your Brain
One of the most common fears for any performer is that moment in a scene when your mind becomes a white, empty room. Your scene partner says a line, you open your mouth to respond, and there is absolutely nothing there. Advice to “just say something” can feel impossible when your brain has shut down. […]
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July 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The Pain of Learning Improv: What to Assess, How to Respond
Learning any new skill, especially a vulnerable and complex one like improv, can sometimes hurt. We’ve all felt that sting of frustration and the dread of hitting a plateau. Sometimes we even feel that demoralizing sense that we’re actually getting worse when we’re trying to get good! It’s easy to interpret this pain as a […]
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July 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Get Out of Your Head (and add details to a scene)
A source of improv ideas in the scene (and you don't gotta think on your feet)
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July 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Improv Burnout? The Truth About “Selfishness” & Comedy Performance
Many of us in creative communities, especially the people-pleasing, team-focused world of improv, might have internalized the idea that constant agreeability and putting the group’s needs ahead of our own is the correct way of making good art and building strong teamwork. Maybe we even think we want to sacrifice for our art, or suffer […]
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July 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Level Up Your “Voice of Reason”: Beyond “Acting Normal” as a Grounded Character
When learning improv, many of us are are given a piece of advice for playing the grounded character (or voice of reason): “Just react like you would in real life.” This is an excellent starting point for understanding how to make a weird scenario relatable to the audience. But then there are those of us […]
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June 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Is an inner monologue useful for improv comedy? (ft. NYC improviser Sabrina Banes)
Sabrina Banes and Jen deHaan discuss how our inner monologue can help our improv performances.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Honesty in Character Creation & Improv Jams - #58
Newsletter #58: Develop some realistic characters by examining honesty in their creation and reactions
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January 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Memory and Recall exercise & Improv Jams - #57
Newsletter #57: When do you remember things best? One thing to try for that. And an article about literalism in comedy, new jams with Jenice & Keri, and an animated audio drama
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January 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Practice Active Listening (exercise) & January Improv Jams - #56
Newsletter #56: You can be present to listen better - one thing to try for that. And an article about literalism in comedy, new jams with Jenice & Keri, and an animated audio drama
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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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New podcast launch, and livestreams to watch - #55
Newsletter 55 has comedy in the form of podcasts and comedy in the form of livestreams to check out
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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Being Perceived in Improv... and community jams! - #54
Newsletter #54: Community jams are TOMORROW so check inside for where to sign up with their hosts!
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January 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Icebreaker science, and new online improv jams! - #53
Newsletter #53: A resource that will help you make your icebreakers more beneficial using science -- and Jam with Keri and Jenice!
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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Protect your Improv Mind, and also - Jam with Jenice - #52
Newsletter #52 is written just for you. I rhyme only when in the mood.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Horror... and an Improv Jam with Keri (not a horror jam! That one is comedy!) - #51
Newsletter #51: Online jams, improv resources, and a little bit of horror comedy - Update for October 31st, 2024.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Learn about emotions in improv scenes & jam with Jenice
Newsletter #50: ORIGINALLY SENT October 10th 2024
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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM