Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

Ben, Brian, Guy, Katie, and Patrick are in a Panel of Experts scene, discussing Graphic Arts. I suppose it’s obvious that I brought hats for the night. The rest of the (record number of) photos can be found in our album.
Yes, we did our usual 1 Word Story as part of our warm ups, and [...]

Here are Justin and Lilia in an Alliteration scene. The rest of the photos from the night (and we’re back to our usual number) can be found in our album.
After our usual warm ups, including the 1 Word Story, we started with our Yes And … exercise. It’s good that we revisit this from time [...]

Here we see Karla, Guy, Allegra, Ben, and Dana in their 1 Word Story group. This is one of only three pictures we have in our album from this class. For some reason not many pictures were taken.
We did the 1 Word Story at the end of our warm up work. We also did a [...]

I was out of town this week, so the amazingly talented Victoria stepped in and covered the workshop for me. From all reports it was a fabulous class.
Thanks Victora!

Ben, Tom, and Robert are pretty focued on Tom’s activity while in this Bus Stop scene. The album has more pictures from the night.
We began the night with warm-ups, including 1 Word Story. Then we started our scene work with 5 Letter Word. Next came a set of Rhyming Scenes.
We got in our standard Irish [...]

As much as people groan about the Irish Drinking Song, that seems to be one everyone enjoys. Here are Lilia, Nancy, Mike, Brian, and Todd singing away. There are more pictures from the night at our album.
After our warmups (including 1 Word Story), we did a complete rotation of Gift Giving. Then everyone participated in [...]

How could I not make this the cover shot for the class? They are doing the Macarena! It made perfect sense in the scene, but good lord, the MACARENA! Well, there are more pictures from the night in our album.
We started the night with warm-ups, and we got in a Story Intro and a Pattern [...]

Mark’s getting pummled in the scene In a BLANK, With a BLANK, While BLANK. Those are Patrick and Tom’s hands doing the pummeling. You’ll find quite a few more pictures (199) from this class in our album.
After our warm ups, we started the night with Machine scenes. We continued with In a BLANK, With a [...]