This week's Quick Take is about using the 5 whys to get your student to understand and learn in the classroom.

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Improv Teachers Quick Take #9

Here you'll find the award-winning podcast, The Improv Teachers as well as other improv related conversations from veteran improviser Lauren Morris. There's conversations about being an artistic director and what it takes to own and operate a long-form improv theater in a small community.

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Katy Schutte is one of the UK's original long-form improvisers. She performs and teaches all over the world, is head-teach for Hoopla and Co-Artistic Director for The Maydays in the UK. Katy has been one of The Maydays since 2004, she is half of legendary sci-fi improv duo Project2 and author of The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook, which is published by Nick Hern Books.

A Funny Women finalist and both nominee and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award, Katy also starred in BAFTA winning online educational series History Bombs.

Katy performs with Knightmare Live and makes her own work including Schutte the Unromantic and acclaimed semi-immersive folk horror play Let's Summon Demons. She is a contributing writer for Cards Against Humanity.

Episode 57: Katy Schutte

Chris is a UK-based performer and theatre-maker who teaches and coaches improvisation in London. He has studied theatre at Royal Holloway College and improvisation at iO and The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. He is the co-artistic director of The Nursery Theatre, a space in London dedicated to improv as a theatrical art form and a member of the internationally-renowned ensemble The Maydays, one half of sci-fi duo Project2 and recently co-founded Unmade Theatre Co. to pursue new projects as a director and performer. Chris hosts YesBot, a podcast about the theory and craft of improv.

Episode 56: Chris Mead

It's episode 11 and today I discuss expanding your community, growing your leadership team, and finding your management style.

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Improv Teachers, Director's Edition, Episode 11

It's Tuesday and ...
Andy began teaching as a graduate student while pursuing his MFA in acting at Purdue. While there, he designed and taught a semester long foundational improv course.

Since then, he has moved back to Kansas City, Missouri where he teaches acting and improvisation for multiple theatre companies including the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the Coterie Theatre, the KC Improv Company, and his own independent workshops. He has also taught for Avila, Park, and Purdue University as an adjunct professor, and has traveled to teach improv for OKC Improv, ComedySportz Buffalo, the Detroit Improv Festival, the San Diego Improv Festival, Trill Comedy Festival in Houston, and workshops in Chelan, Washington.

Andy also is the host of the podcast MCWho? and you can find that at https://buff.ly/2yELWDI

Episode 55: Andy Perkins

It's Tuesday and... Lauren Esposito is our guest! 

Lauren Esposito is a teacher and performer with the Syracuse Improv Collective in Syracuse, NY. She performs regularly with resident teams Susan Be Anything and Heavy Metal Heat Wave. Lauren has been improvising since 2009 and started teaching improv in 2012. Her training as an improv teacher first began at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. She has studied with improv teachers at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and the Magnet Theater. She has performed at improv festivals in NYC, Central NY, and the Northeast.

Lauren has taught improv workshops at Syracuse University, Stony Brook University, and will be teaching at Marywood University in the fall of 2019. She enjoys helping others use improv to improve communication and leadership through college classes, corporate workshops, and professional development with high school teachers.

Improv Teachers Quick Take #9

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