Improv Chronicle Podcast transcriptions

Moving Improv Online Part Two

In the second part of this series on online improv, we re-visit some of the voices you heard last week - improv practitioners who have taken their work onto visual online platforms like Zoom in order to still teach and perform. As the global improv community continues to wrestle with its current inability to do in-person public performances, we hear about the discoveries, the moments of joy and the future of online improv. Will something that has become necessary may end up leading our art form somewhere new?

Moving Improv Online Part One

If you were looking for a typical two weeks in improv, you would look almost anywhere other than the past fortnight. In the midst of a global pandemic, improvisers have had to make huge shifts to continue any sense of work, and for many, huge swathes of income have disappeared in a heartbeat.

The Impact Of Covid-19 On Festivals And Theatres

This is not the episode I expected to make. I'm sitting in Nottingham, England, and I'm not allowed to leave my apartment. Schools, shops, theatres they're shut,. Two weeks ago I was in New York where I’d been for a few weeks. That week I was being joined by teammates who were coming out for the New York Musical Improv Festival. We did not have anything close to the experience we expected.We start what became a pretty personal journey, two weeks ago today.

What's The Big Deal With Edits

“I define edits as not necessarily how do you end a scene, but how do you start something new?”

Getting Suggestive

TranscriptsLloydie James LloydMay 21, 2020improv suggestions, improvised comedy, improv, Magnet Theater