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Category Archives: Behind the 8 Ball
Happy Thanksgiving NEW Holiday Sketch & More!
THANK YOU ALL, our talented artist, students and fans, all of whom we consider family. Check out his new sketch written, performed and edited by Samuel Van Wyk. Keep the laughter going!!!!! Sam’s Upcoming Online Classes Wednesdays 8pm 201 Advanced Improv … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, classes, EVENTS, JUST FOR FUN, Learn to Improvise, Sketch Comedy, VIDEO
Tagged classes, comedy, family, happy, life, online, quarantine, samuel, sketch, thankgiving, van, virtual, wyk
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Emotional Zoom Classroom or Meeting
Emotional Zoom Classroom or Meeting From the book IMPROV on ZOOM by WALT FRASIER available FREE via KindleUnlimited. Emotional Zoom Classroom or Meeting This game is a twist on the classic, Hitchhiking Emotions. I changed this game to Emotional Carpool, … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, classes, Corporate Team Building, Improv Game Descriptions, Learn to Improvise, online, VIDEO
Tagged broadway, building, carpool, classes, classroom, club, comedy, corporate, emotional, event, hitchhiking, improv, interactive, kids, learn, learning, meeting, nyc, online, school, team, teens, virtual, zoom
Educators! Improv in Classroom Great 4 Students & Teachers
Educators! Improv in Classroom Great 4 Students & Teachers By Walt Frasier, Artistic Director of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH and co-founder of IMPROV 4 KIDS Humor and creativity work in similar ways. By creating relationships between two disconnected items, you … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, Corporate Team Building, kids, Learn to Improvise, schools, teens
Tagged camps, center, classes, comedy, community, cultural arts, development, Educators, improv, improvisation, K12, language arts, leadership, learn, professional, public, RESIDENCIES, schools, shows, speaking, staff, student, teachers, team, workshops
Corporate Improv Training: Remote Operations Team Building 4 New Times
by Samuel Van Wyk and Walt Frasier In a time when most companies are working remotely, getting your employees to work as a strong team is more important than ever. Research has shown that improv can be a fun … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, Corporate Team Building, Learn to Improvise, online
Tagged broadway, building, club, comedy, Company, corporate, Fortune 500, Hr, Human Resources, improv, improvisation, Interns, nyc, online, Project Aristotle, psychological safety, Recruiting, Remote, team, teambuilding, times square, work
8pm Thursday LIVE online Improv Comedy Show available worldwide! #FREE #IMPROV #COMEDY
ONLINE COMEDY SHOWS Thursday 8pm, Sunday 3pm CLICK HERE to register for FREE OR donate $5 to help us continue paying these artists for there work. Become a Patreon and get FREE stuff (shows, classes and more) CLICK HERE to help us … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, EVENTS, Learn to Improvise, online, teens, thisweek
ONLINE IMPROV GAMES – How to play Objections online
We have been running shows and classes online now for four weeks. It’s been great just to get together and share some laughs but it has been challenging adopting games to the ZOOM platform. Our classes started off doing stand-up … Continue reading
Einfuhlung – Asia Kate Dillon neck tattoo inspires study in Empathy
Stay with me for a second… In a recent Q&A, while I was babbling after an Improv field trip show for K12 students, Ivana Mendez jokingly said, “Uh oh, Walter’s having another coming to Jesus moment.” That side bar has … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, classes, Learn to Improvise, Uncategorized
Tagged asia kate dillon, ego, empathy, ethos, games, google, journal, life, logos, media, music, pathos, phychological, psychology, safety, school, science, social, theater, truth, work
Ivana Mendez in Start-Up with Marty Freeman and LIVE from Times Square
Stop by as Ivana leads her favorite Improv Games THIS SATURDAY February 16, 2019 at our weekly Morning Jam. Coffee & Donuts Served! Have you seen Ivana Mendez in Start-Up with Marty Freeman? Check out the show on Crackle, where … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball
Tagged actor, actress, broadway, club, comedy, improv, ivana, martin freeman, mendez, nyc, puerto rico, start-up
Advanced Comedy Teens meet Method Acting
Advanced Comedy Teens meet Method Acting? Most stand-up comics in the world do not know acting technique. They do know their world. They learn to observe their world and tells about, what’s wrong with it, how perhaps we can fix … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the 8 Ball, classes, Learn to Improvise
Tagged acting, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, comedy, Jacques Copeau, Kazan, Lee Strasberg, method, Michael Chekhov, Sanford Meisner, Stanislavsky, Stella Adler, teens, Uta Hagen, Viola Spolin, writing
