Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

Here’s a group shot with everyone doing the Mirror exercise. Also in this week’s class album, there are quite a few shots from the scenes using hats and costume props. The camera died early, but the pictures we did get are a lot of fun.
We had 24 people in class this week, and we started [...]

Stanley stands victorious over his fellow improvisers after defeating them in a round of Story Story Die. There were 21 people who participated in this and a variety of other improv games. You can see them all in the photos collected in the album.
Story Story Die was the first bit of stage work we did [...]

This is a scene from a TV Clicker game in which Patrick, Mike, Alphonse, and Tom are all holding guns on each other. We had 20 people in class on this night, and it just happened that no one was brand new. All were returning players. You can see the rest of the pictures in [...]

Howdy Folks!
I’ll be out of town most of next week, and so Mike will be teaching the July 23 class. Mike’s one of those substitute instructors for whom I get nothing but good reports (damn…)
I’ll see you all the following week, July 30!

It was another big class with 25 players participating, 5 of whom were brand new to the Santa Barbara Improv Workshop. Pictured here are Karla, Sienna, Addison with Andy’s Jazz Hands coming out of her head, and Tracy. They’re in the middle of a Machine exercise. You can see the rest of the pictures from [...]

From the pieces of paper pictured in this week’s album cover, you can see that we had a round of Surprise Lines scenes during class on Wednesday. Mark, Megan, and Andy were in this particular scene taking place at a bookstore.
We had 24 players in class this week, including a couple of brand new [...]

Don’t adjust your screen; that is a big black image. There aren’t any pictures from this class because Santa Barbara was in the middle of a blackout from the Gap fire. About 15 minutes before class began, the power went out all through the city. We decided to proceed anyway, since we assumed power would [...]

Next up are the four workshops conducted in June 2008.
We had a big class on 6/4/08. 25 players by my count, with photographic evidence stored in the album.
With that big a group, my notes suffered a bit. I show that we did a Yes & exercise (Advertising), Story Story (without the Die), Entrances and Exits, [...]

I’m on a bit of a roll catching up, so next is the summary for May 2008.
The class on 5/7/08 had 19 players including some brand new players and one returning player who’s been sorely missed. You can see it all in the album.
We tried out a new exercise called By The Numbers which [...]

We had five classes in April, so let’s get right to the links and a quick summary of each night.
Only a few pictures made it out of the 4/2/08 class alive. Those that did can be seen at the album. We had 11 players there for the night,all of whom were repeat players.
In addition to [...]