Improv: The Art of Collaboration

Packed with improv lessons and techniques, this book invites its readers to share and grow and interact. It is written with care and its want to connect is welcoming. Capozzoli teaches you to teach better. Learn to scaffold curriculum, tailor lessons to address multiple intelligences and bolster each student by championing their instincts where playfulness abounds through simple connection. Exercises are devised to awaken the ensemble to be team-playing, fun-chasing improvisers. Free yourself through collaboration and celebration to get out of your head and into your scenes.Renowned improv instructor, performer and director Christian Capozzoli (UCBTNY, Magnet Theater, Annoyance Brooklyn, iO, Second City and Groundlings) has toured the world teaching and performing at festivals, consulting and advising theaters to strengthen lesson plans, and through volunteer-work he's brought improv to senior centers and at risk youth. This book would not exist without the thousands of students, performers and instructors who have studied with him. Their work, their trust, their sense of play inspired him to create some of these exercises and reimagine others to help improvisers cheer and champion each other on and off stage.His first book the Aerodynamics of Yes: The Improviser's Manual is required reading in college theater courses. He has a B.F.A in writing from Emerson College and a Masters in Literature and Education from Harvard University. He directed Amazon's comedy special "Something from Nothing" and has worked alongside legendary instructors Charna Halpern, Mick Napier and Armando Diaz. Read more