Richard Harrison’s Zoom Improv and Storytelling Page

10/01/2023

Rehearsing for an upcoming show…

09/18/2023

I’m teaching a beginner’s workshop for the Still COVIDing, Virtual Meetups (sub-group). Anyone who is a member of the group is welcome to join in the fun!

09/08/2023

Last night’s town hall meeting went a little bit longer than expected, but the problem of the dancing mice was solved; and then there was the “swearing in” of the new mayor, errr, mare, I mean monarch butterfly, no wait, pillar of cats…

08/15/2023

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YxDiUOb_bRorQncnn31Wbo0YrW4Jg42ZAudEFqBjX0Q/edit?usp=sharing_eil_m&ts=64b984a9

Improv games, exercises and warm-ups with pithy explanations. A veritable treasure trove!

Sheet1 Term / Game / Activity,Brief Description,Category,Min # players,Recm'd # of players,roles played,Format,Approx Min Length,Example,Last 'Played',FAVES: (totals),Amanda,Barbara,Cindy,Dori,Heidi,Irina,Kristin,Kristine,Maria Monologue,Everyone gives short monologue, based on single callout,Al...

07/05/2023

Improv exercises/warmups:

Loserball (or maybe Winnerball?)
I Love You (music)
Hey Fred Schneider
I Am A Tree
Cranbo
Going To California
5 Things
Kitty Cat Careers
I Know A Guy
Jumpy Song
Badada
Mind Meld
Accents
Character Matching
Yoga
Nonsense RapYour Love
Gonna Sing A Song About…
One Word Story
Story Round
Concentration
Pattern Game
I Challenge That
What Are You Doing?
I Remember It Well
Grand Theft Auto
Zoom
Energy Ball
Yes, Let’s
Zip Zap Zop
Prince Of Paris
Wanna Buy A Duck
Misty Vista
Pass The Clap
Mirror Mirror

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Scene Work Exercises
3 Line Scenes
Yes And…
Who, What, Where?
It’s Tuesday
Confession
Problem Solved

07/05/2023

New list of improv games!

All Play:
Bat
Group Professor
Gym Game
Improv Grand Master
Last Line
Monologue
Melodrama
Onion
Pivot
Pretentious Idol
Questions Only
Serial
Slide Show
Speed Dating
Show Me That.
Tags
Town Hall

Audience:
Dancing Monkey
Dr. Know-It-All
Hesitation
Moving Bodies

Blind:
Dating Game
Hitchhiker
Interrogation
Irish Wake
Party Quirks
Recap
Santa’s Lap

Line:
1 8 5
Bad Movies
Freeze
Team Last Line

Music:
Beastie Rap
Doo Ron Ron
Greatest Hits
Improv Jam
Irish Drinking Song
99 Problems
Personal Jam
Sing Scene

Other:
1 2 3
2-Headed Warrior
ABC
Big Little
Earplugs
Emo Rerun
Enter/Exit
Everyday Olympics
Foreign Translation
Good Bad Ugly
Half Life
Jeopardy
Kenny’s Coming
Murder Mystery
Musical Murder Mystery
Newscasters
One More Thing
Oscar Winning Moment
Overdub
Play Time
Poets Corner
Shift Right
Sit Stand Kneel
Slips
Super Heroes
Switch
Take That Back
Waiter

05/29/2023

Part two of the video I posted below:

After instructing a solo improv course in Austin, Jill and her students performed a show called "Alone Together", an Institution Theater production held on J...

05/29/2023

Here is Jill Bernard (the author of Jill Bernard’s Small Cute Book of Improv), performing musical improv, and playing all the characters herself!

After instructing a solo improv course in Austin, Jill and her students performed a show called "Alone Together", an Institution Theater production held on J...

05/27/2023

MCS Improv-ers! Here’s the list of improv games and exercises that I mentioned:

04/23/2023

Two of my favourite improv books! Jill Bernard’s is a fun, lively, informative read which I heartily recommend anyone dipping their toes into the wide waters of improv. (Plus it only costs 5 dollars!)
Instant Songwriting is not only (in my mumbled opinion) the best book on musical improv, but also the best improv related book I have ever read in the entirety of my life! If you have the least bit interest in musical improv, do yourself a favour and ask somebody to buy it for you…

04/23/2023

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04/23/2023

A fine example of the intellectually satisfying improv warm up exercise, “Hey Fred Schneider, What Are You Doing?

https://youtu.be/Ylye9JiqnuQ

The "Silicon Valley" star helps Conan and Andy get in touch with their inner B-52's singer.Subscribe to watch more Team Coco videos https://www.youtube.com/c...

04/22/2023

A video of me performing with Point of No Return Improv at the Kent Stage, back in the mists of time. This show was unusual as we were the opening act for a Paranormal investigation team(!), so we had to come up with a suitably spooky improv game. (I am the voice of the ghost.)

https://youtu.be/l4xIhJTqdQI

Check out PNR's hilarious performance! If you like what you see, check us out on our social pages!Website: http://www.pnrimprov.org/Facebook: https://www.fac...

04/22/2023

Since November 2022 I have been running an online beginner’s improv class for people with chemical sensitivities, and gosh, it’s been super fun, with fun, super people! If anyone has any interest in jumping into this feet first, it takes place every Thursday evening, at 9pm Easter Sandel Time. Here is a link to the Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Events group which provides an entryway and event reminders: https://m.facebook.com/groups/291714449384209/?ref=share