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Mar 25, 2010

Billy Merritt performs and teaches at the UCB Theatre in LA. We talk about premise based harolds and his character based improv forms where he gets students to create a single character over eight weeks. We also discuss the cube edit and the hawk edit.


Mar 15, 2010

Caitlin Tegart is a sketch writer and director for the UCB Theatre in NYC. We discuss how writers can help themselves by not worrying about how good an idea is, that instead they need to simply get their ideas onto the page.


Mar 10, 2010

Tara Defrancisco is a former member of the Second City Touring Company. She performs and teaches for iO Theater and ComedySportz in Chicago. She discusses several exercises she uses in her classes and workshops.


Mar 2, 2010

Kevin Hines teaches improv at the UCB Theatre in NYC. He talks about exercises he uses to get students react quickly and realistically in their scenes. He also describes the form of his recent performance class and how he rehearsed for it.