at what age did you start improvising
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I took my first one-day workshop (Theatresports) when I was 24. Started taking "real" improv classes at 27 (scenework and short-form). Started longform at 28. First improvised for a paying audience at 29. First got paid to improvise at 30. Now I am old and all is but a distant memory, a faded photograph and tears at the bottom of a Geritol bottle.
now that i'm not drunk i have a serious question...ok so out of my small group of friends i have the most experience in improv, so my friends always want to get together and practice and such at my brothers house, and they expect me to be some kind of improv guru and teach them the tricks of the trade. the problem is im not even close to experienced enough to teach, and honestly i dont think i'm even good at improvising. so we just end up drinking and messing around usually...i feel like im letting them down. does anyone know a good block of games or exercises 3-5 ppl can do, that would get them in the groove of long form. that's our "goal" is to form a group. also we would all just take a class together but we are broke.
I did some improv games as part of a summer acting camp when I was 9, I think. The same guy who ran the camp directed a weekly short-form practice session when I was 15-16, which was run in the choir practice room of a church.
I joined up with the improv troupe at my college in my freshman year (18), in which we did both short form and some (hilariously misguided) long form. This continued until I was in charge of the group and read Truth in Comedy and decided we were too cool for short form THE END.
I'm not drunk, but I did type this while driving.
I joined up with the improv troupe at my college in my freshman year (18), in which we did both short form and some (hilariously misguided) long form. This continued until I was in charge of the group and read Truth in Comedy and decided we were too cool for short form THE END.
I'm not drunk, but I did type this while driving.
It's 2:30 PM here, so I'm not drunk. I started shortform at 21, and we started doing horribly misguided longform shortly afterwards, although I'm not sure we've stopped being horribly misguided yet.
Tis probably deserves it's own thread.
Try borrowing some books from the library. Truth in Comedy is a good one to start with.
Tis probably deserves it's own thread.
Try borrowing some books from the library. Truth in Comedy is a good one to start with.
I started about six years ago, so I was maybe 38, with a couple of short-form classes at a local performing arts center. Other than me, few or no other adults signed up for improv classes, so the center hasn't offered them since. In 2007 (I was 40), I found another group/class doing long-form and have been there ever since. Age-wise, I'm probably toward the middle in our group, and most of the other people started around the time I did.
