State of Clay
ClayAmerican abroad. Improviser. Communicator. Corellian.
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Every scene is a therapy scene
You may have been told to avoid therapy scenes in your improv.
It’s two talking heads. No one’s doing anything. The therapist character is contextually removed and separate from any weird perspectives or behavior.
And in a real therapy...
Put your peers on a pedestal
There’s a specific feeling that happens about forty minutes into an improv workshop with someone whose work you adore and you’re just so, so excited to be in the room with.
You’ve paid a lot of money. An improv legend - whose set you may h...
Improv is a math equation and I've got the formula to prove it
In my day job, I make a lot of visuals.
I work in communications for an organization that advocates for people with intellectual disabilities, which means I spend a lot of time trying to turn complicated things into things that are easy fo...
There is no ladder
This blog is more a social how-to, rather than a guide to good improv. And that’s the point.
A book I recommend to all job-seekers, alumni, and loose connections who reach out to me in my professional comms world is Steve Dalton’s The 2-Ho...
Stop Putting on Improv "Nights" (And Put on a Show)
Welp. Following up on last week - I (alongside approximately 112 others) did not get cast on the Free Association’s new house Harold team. What a bummer.
Let’s get back to making great stuff.
This week, I’m talking about producing Scri...
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American in London, straddling humanitarian work and comedy. I talk a lot about improv in the meantime!
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