Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

Lorien, Andy, Li-At, Angela, and Roberta in an Irish Drinking Song. The full set of pictures from the workshop is now in the on-line album.
We had four new players with us for the night, and they impressed all of us with their bold choices and willingness to dive right in. Welcome!
We started with a pretty [...]

Scott, Nick, Alan, Sol, and Ben in a Sporting Event scene. I just like the looks on everyone’s faces.
I’ve got the album on-line and captioned so stop on by and enjoy. It was a fun night (and I’m writing this up within a week of the class!)
We started off with a set of Story-Story-Die scenes. [...]

Well, there aren’t any pictures from this class because I didn’t get a chance to pick up batteries to the camera. It’s too bad because there was some great character work in the course of the night.
We started with our usual warm-ups. After that, our scene work began with a series of Counting Words scenes.
I [...]

I like this shot of Jim, Sol, and Victoria. It’s very dramatic.
The album for this workshop is now available so head on over and check it out. You’ll also see pictures of Neil (yay!), who had a chance to come to class during his quick return visit to Santa Barbara.
After warm-ups, we did a Speaks [...]

Linda, Aidan, Li-At, Kenna, Don, and Sharon belting out an Irish Drinking Song.
The album for this workshop is available now, so check it out.
After our warm-ups we got right into a couple of Tag-Out Stories. The energy was good and I think the stories were fun. A series of ABC scenes followed and we [...]

Ben Whitehouse over at the Improvoker has written an interesting article about comedy in improv. He discusses the difference between going for a quick gag in a scene vs. building up a truthful scene that is funny in a complex, emotional way. The sort of difference you’d find between fast food and a complex, gourmet [...]

I know this photo is a little blurry, but I like the action and enthusiasm from Robert, Ann, and David. They’re in a Hitchhiker scene, and David just entered as a rowdy concert goer. They all look the part!
The album from the workshop is now available. We started off (after the warm-ups) with a set [...]

Have you noticed that the performers in an Irish Drinking Song start to look like they’re going to punch someone. Here, Gina, Sol, Scott, David, and Christine are belting out a song, but because this is Christine’s first song, she doesn’t appear quite as mad at Scott as all the others do.
The album [...]