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1 (3)

• 10 Things That Can Wreck Your Life
• 10 to Zen
• 10 Ways to Level Up in Improv

2 (1)

• 2-Man, No Show

4 (1)

• 4 Important Truths Behind Pursuing Your Passion

5 (4)

• 5 creativity myths you need to stop believing
• 5 Things Holding You Back In Improv And Life
• 50 Space Objects You Can Do Besides Holding a Cup
• 55 Classic Improv Scene Initiations Featuring Alligators

A (22)

• “After a great #mfringe opening last night, SMALL PLATES is back tonight! 6:30pm at the Croft”
• “Ask Jill” Archives for 2014
• A Dog on a Surfboard
• A Series of Diagrams
• A Suggestion
• A Tale of Two Shows
• AAA Rated Patterns
• Adsit & Lutz Workshop
• Airblade team photo
• An introduction to Rational Fiction
• Analogy Friday: Salt
• Angel Andres on Growing as a Violinist
• Annoyance Fall Intensive: The Annoyance Style
• Another fun ol’ night coming up with my m8s from It’s A Non-Committal Date. 6:30pm, Croft Institute, City.
• Anyone Can Do This
• Anything’s Possible! (with protection)
• Appreciate nerves, Don’t Resent Them
• Art recognizes Art: Improv Inspirations from Hamilton
• Artistic Doubt
• Asaf Rosen on True Voice and What’s Funny
• Authentic Artifice
• Awareness of the Game

B (18)

• “being emotionally connected to the words you’re saying”
• “Being self-critical is one thing, but being self-punishing is something else.”
• Back to Basics
• Be A Great Straight Man
• Being an Introverted Actor
• Big Reactions vs Natural Reactions
• Bill Arnett on openings and inspiration
• Bill Arnett workshop notes on character
• Bill Kulhan on Accepting Mistakes
• Bill Murray on finding satisfaction with your career
• Billy Merritt’s Advice for New Improvisers
• Bodies in Space
• Book Summary: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
• Brainstorming Conversations, and the Deal with Harold Openings
• Break’s Over
• Brian Huskey on UCB, Improv, and Being a Character Actor
• Brian Stack interviews Del Close (1986)
• Building Character: Letting Go

C (11)

• “Comedy can be a by-product of the improvisation process but is not a requirement of it.”
• Chaos Theory – ‘Echo’ Opening
• China: Day 1
• Chris Gethard on Waiting in Lines
• Coaching a Coach
• Colleen Doyle on commitment and lazy performance
• Color and Advance Exercise
• Community Action
• Considering a Diversity of Thinking
• Creating inclusive improv
• Curb Your Expectations

D (19)

• “Del Close Notes”
• Dan Deacon – NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
• David Bowie and Character Voice
• David Koechner on Playing the Properties of Objects
• David Razowksy in Words And Pictures
• David Razowsky on What You’re Carrying Into The Room
• David Razowsky: Improvising as an Actor Workshop – Day 1
• David Razowsky: Improvising as an Actor Workshop – Day 2
• David Razowsky: Improvising as an Actor Workshop – Day 3
• Deny the Mistake
• Dialogue…I dont know what to say!
• Dianah Dulaney of ComedySportz Houston on difficult people (aka problems/jerks) in improv
• Diaries of a Wannabe Improviser: You’re Not as Important as You Think
• Discussing a Bit with Matt Holmes – The Secret to Improv
• Do What You Want To Do
• Do you ever worry during that what you’ve set up in a scene won’t be funny?
• Downsides
• Drinking a beverage in an improv scene is the most shaded window into what’s going on.
• Dru Johnston on Accepting Notes

E (7)

• Eight Ways To Be Good With The Improv
• Entangl
• Everything is a Harold.
• Everything Matters
• Everything Must Go!
• Everything you do on stage matters. A lot.
• Exploratory tags vs Game Tags

F (14)

• Fear of Failure: Taking Pride in Being Bad
• Final Show with Airblade
• Find Scene Inspiration in Four Easy Steps! Guaranteed!
• First shows at Under the Gun
• Five Anti-Improv Rules to Follow When Improvising a Three-Act Play
• Follow the Fear: The Influence of Del Close
• Forms and Game
• Free Range Harolds
• Freeze Tag Ask-For
• Fuck That Shit – Jawbone Song
• Fuck That Shit on How to Open a Show
• Full Disclosure Goes Monthly
• Full Disclosure: The Improvised Game show debuts tonight
• Full Frontal: Oil Spill Bill

G (10)

• Gender in Improv: A Trans Perspetive
• Get Over Your Crippling Self-Doubt by Answering These Three Questions
• Ghostfest at Torch Theatre Videos
• Gillian Jacobs: Learning How to Act Like Myself
• Good Artist Tips
• Good improv is not about being a quick thinker, it’s about being a quick feeler.
• Got Your Back E24: Roy Janik
• Got Your Back E39: Eat the Whole Pizza
• Got Your Back E43: Maybe You Aren’t Listening
• Greedy Improvisers

H (10)

• Harassment and Sexism in Improv
• Harold Night has new teams
• Hey Fred Schneider Warm-Up
• Homer Simpson – Object Work
• How do I deal with setback?
• How do I find the joy of improv after I’ve lost it?
• How do you play differently with different people?
• How having 4 walls can set you free – a workshop approach
• How to Beat Improv Foot
• Hustle

I (32)

• “I don’t give a shit about the show almost ever, because the scene matters.”
• “I feel like the reason people get in their head is that people are looking for the proper thing as opposed to being in the thing.”
• “It’s not precious. It’s just play, and get out and do it.”
• “It’s not yes, AND! It’s YES! and…”
• “It’s only through our feelings that we know who people are and what drives them.”
• I am my own worst enemy
• I Care
• I got a note: when you’re playing a married couple, act more like you’re married. What are some actionable ways to do this?
• Idiot Kings – Out of Bounds Festival 2014
• If it’s all improvised, why does it often look the same?
• Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
• Improv and Mental Health
• Improv and the Curious Worm
• Improv Characters You Need to Retire
• Improv Eyes
• Improv Interviews: Armando Diaz
• Improv is About Balance
• Improv Mid-Life Crisis
• Improv Moves, Chess Moves, and Annotation Symbols
• Improv Nerd E123 – Will Hines
• Improv Nerd E163: TJ & Dave
• Improv Questions Podcast
• Improv Rambling: Thing I Love & Love It/Hate It (2 exercises)
• Improvising without the improviser
• Inflorescence at Melbourne Fringe Festival
• Initiations: Lessons from Auditions
• Inside The Master Class: Object Work
• Invasive Species
• It begins!
• It’s All About The Where
• It’s Not Censorship; Your Jokes Are Just Crappy and Lazy
• It’s Only A Suggestion

J (5)

• “Just have fun”
• Jeff Griggs on Important Improv Values
• John Ratliff on Playing Real v Playing Funny
• Judgement, the improv killer
• Justin D. Torres on What New Teams Need

K (3)

• Karin Louise Hammerberg on off-stage status
• Kate Tempest on the frustrations of the writer/performer
• Kevin Scott on the unspoken improviser/audience agreement

L (8)

• “Laughter is not the only legitimate response an audience can have to a show.”
• Learning to Trust
• Lessons from Ben Rodgers
• Lessons from Different Theaters
• Lessons From The Masters, Volume 1: Michael Gellman
• Lessons from the Masters, Volume 4: Mark Sutton
• lessons from wrestling: trained and ready
• Listening vs. Monkeys

M (10)

• Magnet Theater Podcast E50: Will Hines
• Magnet Vs PIT Vs UCB (Updated 2 years Later)
• Make A Big Choice
• Malcolm Gladwell on the key to success: don’t be afraid to look like a fool
• Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, We Built an Improv Form
• Men as Women
• Michael Showalter on Why Filmmakers Have to Take Care of Their Audiences
• Mirror, Action, Object: An Exercise in Personal Active Stakes
• My Favourite Improv Advice
• My Worst Moment in Improv

N (7)

• Need help finding the game of the scene? Point at your scene partner mid-sentence, scream “THAT WAS UNUSUAL” then punch them in the face.
• Neil Casey 401 Notes Day Final
• Neil Casey 401 Notes Day Three
• New Design, Same Old Content
• New Year, New Harold Night
• No Bullshit Harolds
• Notes I Got

O (5)

• “One of the notes I still get consistently is that I play the game too “cartoonish” or that I’m not grounding/justifying my actions enough.”
• Observed Key Factors to Successful (and Unsuccessful) Improv
• On Being A Mom In Every Improv Scene
• On Good and Bad
• One year of Cage Match!

P (14)

• Pack Improv with Miles Stroth podcast
• Patrick’s Improv Reflections – 09/09/15 Show
• Patrick’s Improv Reflections – 09/30/15 Show
• Patrick’s Improv Reflections – 10/14/15 Show
• Performing at Harold Night
• Picture This: Shaping Your Scenes
• Play Like A Great Team
• Playing Coy with the Scene
• Playing Fast = Playing Big
• Playing the Scene vs Playing The Piece
• Please Ask Me a Ton of Questions on Stage
• Possible Reasons You’re Not on an Improv Team
• Professional Wrestling is a Lot Like Improv Comedy
• Prudence is going to DCM!

Q (1)

• “Quotes from my improv teacher Matt Higebee”

R (8)

• Redefinding Group Mind
• Repent or die.
• Resetting to Zero
• Resources page is updated
• Robert Webb on Finding Logic in Crazytown
• Rough Show
• Rules For Myself (and other people trying to create stuff)
• “Repeat what you say, heighten how you say it”

S (20)

• “Supporting another’s success Won’t ever dampen yours.”
• Say Day
• Sexual Harassment Policies Are Not Enough
• Sidney Goldstein, Basketball and Improv
• Small Lil’ Exercise on Playing Status
• Some Improv and Acting Teachers And What I Learned From Them
• Some Notes and Tips for Monoscenes
• Some thoughts on Neo-Futurism
• Space Jam Lessons Learned
• Spolin & Close: Gary Schwartz and Joe Bill discuss their teachers
• Spontaneous comedy finds giggles in novelty
• Squirrel in the Garage
• Status Exercises in Improv
• Status vs Attitude
• Stepfathers’ Invocation Harold
• STFU
• Stick This In Your Ear: The Improv Podcast Round-Up
• Stop Trying To Do Something Right
• Style
• Subtext vs Stupid

T (39)

• “The world is dynamic”
• “There are three reasons we don’t support someone: laziness, judgement, fear. All of these are fucking unacceptable”
• “This changed me!”
• T.J. Jagodowski on Realistic Improv
• Talent vs. Skill
• Tara DeFrancisco on Making It
• Telling Stories at The Remix
• That’s Racist!
• The Art of Adding Specifics to Improv Scenes
• The Backline E159: The Johnstonian Dictionary
• The Backline E32: What’s Missing
• The Backline E66: Improv Is Not a Formula
• The Deconstruction
• The Diary of One Boy’s Year at the Conspiracy
• The Dusty Change Machine
• The Effect Of Time On Improv and Life
• The Enigma of Rick Moranis
• The Four Steps of Yes And
• The frisbee zone
• The Illustrated Guide to Improvisers
• The Improv Conspiracy: Melbourne Fringe 2014
• The Key to IMPROVement
• The Last Days of Martin de Maat
• The Lifecycle of an Improviser
• The Openings of Shannon O’Neill
• The power of silence, eye contact, and slowing down
• The Transcendent Function in Improv
• The Void Laughs Back: Nietzsche and the Church of Improv
• The Worst Improv Scenes
• The Zen of Improv: Improviser’s Mind Beginner’s Mind
• The Zen of Improv: The Hardiest Easiest Work (Part One)
• The Zen of Improv: The Journey
• Things From Improv Books I’ve Read
• TJ Jagodowski on the importance of teamwork
• To Think or Not To Think
• Top 15 things I wish I knew when I first started teaching improv
• Tragedy Harolds
• Truth in comedy
• Two Shades of Funny

V (1)

• Varieties of Want

W (16)

• “what can I do to make this scene better”
• “What would you ask for if you knew the answer was YES”
• “When We Judge, We Miss Information”
• Warm Up with Commitment
• We Don’t Try Hard Enough
• We Have To Pack (Exercise)
• What Great Listeners Actually Do
• What to Do If There is a Stage Hog in Your Improv Class
• When To Edit
• Who to blame for your Improvisation
• Why Isn’t Your Improv Theater Diverse?
• Will Hines – The Sleepover Form Workshop
• Will Hines on feeling right for shows
• Will Hines – Tracers Form Workshop
• William Regal on what makes a wrestler successful
• Working with Del Close

Y (25)

• Year in Review: 2015
• Yes… AND
• You Already Know The Real “Why”
• You Get Better Every Time You Step On Stage…
• You have the opportunity to make a different choice
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Broni Lisle
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Courtnee Johnson
• You’re Going To Meet Some People: Damien Vosk
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Dan Pavatich
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Hayley Tantau
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Laura Buskes
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Mario Hannah
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Nadine Sparks
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Patrick Rehill
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Play Like A Girl
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Quiet Achievers
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Ryan Zorzut
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Simon McCulloch
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Sophie Fernandes
• You’re Going To Meet Some People: The Podcast! This Sunday!
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: The Sparrow Men
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Tim Quabba
• You’re Going to Meet Some People: Trillcumber
• Your Team’s Vision
• Yummy Pineapples: Eight Ways To Cut Open A Suggestion