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Moving About The Stage With Style
I always start my styles classes with a reminder that we are always improvising in a style. Both individually and as a group. Most Western ...
Narrative/Plot/Story: The Basics
In my Big List of Questions for style research, there is an entire section on plot, narrative, and story. As humans, we have an innate and natural ...
Styles Research: A Big List of Questions
When I direct a show in a style or genre, I find it’s really important to develop a strong sense of WHY. For example, knowing that both film and time ...
Fifteen Years Of Audience Suggested Movie Genres
Yesterday, I posted playwrights which I've gotten over the last fifteen years. Today, I have a list of movie genres I've gotten from an audience ...
15 Years of Audience Suggested Playwrights
Unexpected Productions' A(n Improvised) Christmas Carol is coming up, a show in which both the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas ...
Why Study Genre and Style?
Do styles put you in your head? Or do they feel like too much icing and not enough cake? Outside of performing in genre or style: Do you sometimes ...
An #InternationalWomensDay In The Life Of My Partner
Its #InternationalWomensDay, so I'm going to talk about what happens when @AdmiralAsthma and I do the same job, since we both direct improvised plays, ...
Too Long; Didn’t Read: Shadowrun Racism, CORPSins, and Good Reason To Roleplay
"What’s most important to me is that it’s about the present. It’s not really about an imagined future. It’s a way of trying to come to terms with the ...
Longterm Improv Investments
There's nothing more I love about Seattle than seeing August Wilson at the Seattle Rep, and so I was excited to attend The Piano Lesson today. Every ...