Improv and me

Last Modified: Nov 11, 2024

I started practising improv in 2018, and continue it today. I've done longform, shortform, been on a house team, I ran improv sessions for Leeds University Union for 3 years, one of which was entirely online. Presently, my biggest contribution to improv is being part of the organising comittee for Robin Hood International Improv Festival.

Improv fundamentally changed the way I made creative work. Maybe I will write about it more articulately at some other point, but here is an ongoing list of how it has made me a better creative:

1. I am kinder and more open.
2. I worry less about how to start.
3. I embrace and utilise my mundanity.
4. I play with form.
5. I don't start with a script any more.

Read more of my articles about improv:

• Breaking The Fourth Wall In Improv
• Online improv, the offers economy, and lessons from D&D
• Devising Games For A Purpose (Teaching Story, and Reincorporation)
• Interview with Stephen Davidson
• Blog of a week of training with Phillipe Gaulier in 2019