Improv Blog & News
Tips, experiences and notes for improvisers.
Five warmups that never fail (and why they work)
2026-07-10 · 🏷 warmups, tips, trainers
Every trainer has nights where the room walks in tired, distracted or shy. These five warmups have never let me down. 1. Crazy Eights — ninety seconds of shaking limbs wakes up bodies faster than any…
Your first show: a survival guide for new troupes
2026-07-10 · 🏷 shows, experience, organizing
Our first show taught us more than ten rehearsals. Here's what I wish someone had told us. Book a small room and pack it with friendly faces. Forty warm friends beat two hundred strangers. The audien…
Sidecoaching: helping without taking over
2026-07-10 · 🏷 teaching, trainers, classes
Sidecoaching is the trainer's most powerful and most dangerous tool. Called from the edge of the stage mid-scene, a good sidecoach is invisible; a bad one becomes the scene. Three principles keep it …