improvisation (acting)

An activity guide featuring over thirty instructional units for teaching theater skills, featuring specific games and activities related to acting basics, including communication skills, group building, playmaking, playwriting, and critiquing.

A guide to holding improvisation lessons in comedy that includes tips to help actors improve their improv skills along with suggestions for various exercises.

Gives twenty creative improv workshop activities.

Discusses the use of the game structure as a basis of theater training, examining the theory and foundations of teaching and directing theater, providing an outline of workshop exercises, and offering comments on children in the theater and on directing community productions.

A collection of more than one hundred acting exercises designed to help performers improve their skills, with exercises focusing on imagination, observation, nonverbal communication, sensory awareness, performance, characterization, improvisation, and more.

Presents approximately eighty improvisation games and associated lists of ideas, elements, and prompts, and includes printable files of all the lists on a CD-ROM.

A collection of diverese viewpoints, ideas, and memories from teachers, actors, and directors who all got their start at The Second City comedy theater.

Explains the benefits of teaching high school students improvisational theater and offers teachers advice on how to incorporate improve into the classroom.