Artist’s Eye for the Improv Guy with Duncan Carty. Time for something completely different! This week we have delightful artist, Duncan Carty, drawing* from his experience as an artist and how the creative process of illustration can be applied to improvisation on stage. Get your pens and pencils ready for
Howdy! Due to technical carnage we’ve been unable to finalise a lovely new virtual workshop for you today! Fear not – it’s coming at you tomorrow instead, all the better to fill your bank holiday with. In the meantime, why not catch up on the SEVEN workshops we’ve already produced
Virtual Improv Drop-In: The Voices! The Voices! with Marilyn Ann Bird. This workshop is about how to create character voices using different inspirations and some ideas for how to practise them on your own during lockdown. Marilyn is a full-time actor and voiceover artist and has been trained by teachers from UCB,
This week’s Virtual Drop-In is led by the fantastic Stephen Davidson, and is all about improvising gender! Do you feel awkward playing genders different from your own? Just want to make sure you’re doing it well? Come along to this one day workshop and push your boundaries. We’ll build some
Science Fiction & Fantasy with Philippa Stazicker. This workshop focuses on introducing Sci-Fi and Fantasy themes into your improv. Join Philippa as she talks about what makes something feel fantastical, and practice solo techniques for adding sci-fi and fantasy to locations, themes, and characters. Philippa Stazicker is a Nottingham based
Creating Big Characters Fast with Claudia Behlendorf. This workshop is all about getting inspiration to access big characters quickly, from the comfort of your own home with Claudia Behlendorf of Die Affirmative! Claudia is an improviser and teacher with Die Affirmative, in Germany. Claudia has been a freelance actress on
Solo Improv with Jay Sukow of Today Improv! In this workshop Jay goes over some techniques to perfect your solo improv skills. From monologuing to being inspired by what you know, in this workshop you’ll learn to follow the fear to perform confidently on your lonesome! This drop-in is FREE,
Physicality, Objects & Movement with Ki and Russ. In this workshop Ki and Russ give you some ideas on how to play around with being non-human characters, practise “show don’t tell”, and take on characteristics from animals to give you more options in scenes and to help you break out
Laban Movements with Emily Brady. Join us tonight for our own Emily Brady going slightly mad alone in her flat taking us through Laban movements. Watch, copy, improvise and share! We’ll have a chat about it afterwards on Facebook in the MissImp Members group. (official description) Join one of our
This week we’re back with our monthly “half drop-in, half show”, sticking you on a mini stage with everyone else, being loud and having fun doing improv stuff. The main difference from a weekly drop-in? It lasts longer, and you can drink throughout – just like a real show! This
Group scenes provide some of the most fun you can have in improv. You’re creating fabulous and incredible things with multiple people on stage at the same time, and new ideas can be found and explored in even more depth as we each throw our ideas into the hat. It
Improv scenes can have real depth if characters clearly have defined statuses, which enable us to play with the power dynamics that naturally follow. However, all too often we might find ourselves remaining in the position we happened to have taken at the beginning of the scene, missing out on
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During the coronavirus outbreak, MissImp has continued to offer entirely free online activities for our community, including commissioning an ongoing series of paid virtual drop-ins from improvisers around the world, fortnightly online Gorilla Burger shows and more. If you’d like to help us keep these activities going and keep our lights on we’d be immensely grateful. Together, we can get through this.
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