My family was big into Whose Line growing up, so much so that we took a trip to the UK to see it live. (This was before the Drew Carey version.) We got to meet a number of performers, including Colin and Ryan.
When I think of competitive improv, I think of ComedySportz, which my mom competed in for several years. It was a national improv competition show.
I was hugely influenced by CIG! I was part of an improv troupe in grades 7 and 8, in high school our improv team was pretty competitive. But I still learned so much foundational stuff. I always think of the 5 elements of story (location, relationship, conflict, raising the stakes, resolution) when thinking about scene structure. Did you ever play ‘scene in 3’ ?
At Sheridan I helped run an improv club, and it was so much fun cutting lose and having fun making scenes and playing games. Improv taught me so much.
YES! I feel like everything I learned about story, i learned from improv!
I wish I'd made more of an effort to get involved with improv stuff at Sheridan- I think there was one (I think we missed each other by a few years). There were so many musical theatre students there too, I feel like I could have learned a lot from them instead of staying in my drawing bubble.
My family was big into Whose Line growing up, so much so that we took a trip to the UK to see it live. (This was before the Drew Carey version.) We got to meet a number of performers, including Colin and Ryan.
When I think of competitive improv, I think of ComedySportz, which my mom competed in for several years. It was a national improv competition show.
Ooooh, ComedySportz! It looks like it's still around. That's so fun that your whole family got involved!
I was hugely influenced by CIG! I was part of an improv troupe in grades 7 and 8, in high school our improv team was pretty competitive. But I still learned so much foundational stuff. I always think of the 5 elements of story (location, relationship, conflict, raising the stakes, resolution) when thinking about scene structure. Did you ever play ‘scene in 3’ ?
At Sheridan I helped run an improv club, and it was so much fun cutting lose and having fun making scenes and playing games. Improv taught me so much.
YES! I feel like everything I learned about story, i learned from improv!
I wish I'd made more of an effort to get involved with improv stuff at Sheridan- I think there was one (I think we missed each other by a few years). There were so many musical theatre students there too, I feel like I could have learned a lot from them instead of staying in my drawing bubble.