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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson "I was just about to do that." There are fewer words I care less to hear in rehearsal or class. It's not that I don't have sympathy for an actor or a student in the...

Character is movement and sound. This is what I tell company members and students. What about motivation and interior monologue? I don't care about those things. I don't think they have any place in improv and maybe not even in acting. Am I an iconoclast? A madman? A...

Tis a gift to be simple. -Quaker hymn Simplicity is one of the keys to good improvisation in the Transactors approach. This might come as a surprise to someone who sees one of our seemingly complex long-form performances, such as The Musical!. The easiest way to...

For the last few years I have been exhorting company members, students, and myself to "explore" rather than "invent" while improvising. This is only an original idea in so far as we all learn things in a subjective way and in our own time. Paul Sills, the original...

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. -John Bunyan Vulnerability probably isn't the first thing that springs to mind when you think of improv. Certainly a great appeal for improv audiences is vicarious...

The laws of art are the same as the laws of morality. -Robert SchumannDuring a recent Transactors class, it struck me that I kept making references to tenets of various religions as I instructed my students. No, I wasn't telling them about tithing or Hallal butchering...