Tag Archives: character

A Warning About Outrageous Characters

Friday, November 3, 2006 – 2:37 pm

While it’s important to choose strong characters, I wanted to take a moment to warn you that picking a strong character and picking an outrageous character, are very different things. An outrageous character choice is always a possible way to go in a scene, but if it turns out that character in your head isn’t [...]

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Knowing Your Characters

Sunday, October 29, 2006 – 12:19 am

In preparation of a practice group I was leading this weekend, focusing on character work, I wanted to be able to define the differences in creating characters. Although I hadn’t thought about it before, improv characters can come in many different flavors. I realized that knowing what character type you typically play, can make a [...]

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Status Watching

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 – 9:50 am

Today, while standing on the 96th Street train platform, I had an improv eureka moment. I began to really notice how people stand and how I perceived their status. Some slouched, some made eye contact, some crossed their hands across their chests, some walked past me their heads held high, some stuffed their hands into [...]

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