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Category Archives: Improv Games

Game Library: “Identity Circle”

“Identity Circle” provides a platform to truly see and listen to the truths of your ensemble.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 17, 2021May 31, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Connections, Ensemble, Icebreakers, Identity Circle, Inclusiveness, Speaking Your Truth, Trust, Truth, VulnerabilityLeave a comment on Game Library: “Identity Circle”

Game Library: “New Choice”

“New Choice” keeps you on your toes as a player while also modeling the immediacy and disposability of improvisational play.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 10, 2021October 5, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Ding, Improvisation, New Choice, Short-Form, Should've Said, Spontaneity, WimpingLeave a comment on Game Library: “New Choice”

Game Library: “Good, Bad, Worst Advice”

This entry includes some good, bad and worst advice for how to get the most out of a short-form game of the same name.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 3, 2021September 23, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Comedy, Curve of Absurdity, Experts, Good Bad Worst Advice, Hosting, Interview, Short-FormLeave a comment on Game Library: “Good, Bad, Worst Advice”

Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

Here’s an exercise to help pace heightening moves when exploring the game of a scene.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 26, 2021April 30, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Exercises, Extending, Heighten, Heightening Circle, Looking Backwards, Looking Good, One-Downing, One-Upping, Small Steps, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

Game Library: “Oscar-Winning Moments”

There’s a lot of room for playful discovery in the short-form game “Oscar-Winning Moments.”

Posted byimprovdrNovember 19, 2021December 11, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Handle, Oscar-Winning Moments, Short-Form, StyleLeave a comment on Game Library: “Oscar-Winning Moments”

Game Library: “Counting Circle”

A simple matter of counting to a set target can surprisingly bring an ensemble together…

Posted byimprovdrNovember 12, 2021October 26, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Active Listening, Counting Circle, Ensemble, GroupmindLeave a comment on Game Library: “Counting Circle”

Game Library: “Focus Ball”

“Focus Ball,” the latest addition to the ImprovDr “Game Library,” allows improvisers to playfully explore the skills of giving and taking focus.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 5, 2021February 11, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Focus, Focus Ball, Give, Give and Take, Sharing FocusLeave a comment on Game Library: “Focus Ball”

Game Library: “Subtitles”

“Subtitles” explores the frequently humorous disparity of what may become lost in translation as a movie moves from one language to another.

Posted byimprovdrOctober 29, 2021September 3, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Foreign Movie, Gibberish, Language Skills, Physicality, Subtitles, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Subtitles”

Game Library: “Bus Stop”

“Bus Stop” requires players to mine the simplest of choices in their collective pursuit to find and build the game of the scene.

Posted byimprovdrOctober 22, 2021February 16, 2026Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Accepting, Bus Stop, Game of the Scene, Looking Backwards, Looking Good, Obvious, Parallel Action, PhysicalityLeave a comment on Game Library: “Bus Stop”

Game Library: “World’s Worst”

A popular line game, “World’s Worst” allows you to flex your comedic muscles.

Posted byimprovdrOctober 15, 2021December 13, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Gagging, Jokes, Line Game, Punchlines', World's WorstLeave a comment on Game Library: “World’s Worst”

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