Improv Tips

In the Guatemalan jungle

The Albright Estate/Manor and Guatemala

Inside the Albright Estate

The Christian Science Reading Room and the Albright Estate/Manor

The Christian Science Church/Reading Room

Inside the Albright Death Room

On the grounds of the Albright Estate/Mansion

Outside the Albright estate/mansion at the top of Hill Valley Hill

Inside the offices of The Bureau

Inside the office of The Bureau

The Boys are presented with a new, BATTY case!

Gordon Freeman's bedroom

At the Stone Temple Pilots cotillion

Inside the offices of The Bureau

The offices of The Bureau

Hill Valley School

The county morgue

Gordon Freeman's House

McConnell's Grocery Store

The Bureau Boys' Office in the Sub-Sub Basement of the Bureau

Beneath the Hill Valley Orphanage

The Hill Valley Orphanage

Outside of the Rotten Reindeer Ranch

The sub- sub-basement of The Bureau

Near a boulder at the center of the town of Hill Valley

Outside and inside a hemp shop

Inside Dr. Emily Cornelius's office

A Catholic grade school.

Inside a SPOOKY apothecary

A spooky house on Elm Street

The SPOOKY basement of the BOOreau.

An unknown, small town in Iowa.

In the sub- sub-basement of the Hollywood Bowl.

Outside the Hollywood Bowl

Inside a Kroger's and a Michael's; then, in a tent in their parking lots.

Hollywood Boulevard

Inside the minds of the Bureau Boys.

Once again, back outside the Jack in the Box.

Inside Gwendolyn's lair, then back to the Jack-in-the-Box.

Let's call this the end of the first season.

Set up a system for how you're going to audition new members to your team, stick to it, and don't play favorites.

Don't let the fear that a story is too unbelievable prevent you from ever telling it onstage.

Be careful that you're not defaulting to arguments or that the arguments you have aren't going on forever.

You might find it useful to physically warm up your mouth before performing.

In a tinkerer's lair beneath the Jack in the Box restaurant

Don't shut out a particular form of improv, especially if you've never tried it.

The improvisers onstage would much prefer a suggestion they've never heard before than hear the same jokey suggestions they always get.

Find some characters you're comfortable with and confident playing that you can pull out at any time during a set.

There are many ways you can still play the scene in a profession you're unfamiliar with.

Even though you're showing only a moment of a character's life, they existed prior to your scene, and they'll exist after your scene.

A Jack in the Box restaurant in the desert, equidistant from three movie studios