Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv

The Glorious GOAT we are interview this week is none other than Lisa Rowland! We have always looked up to Lisa when she was our teacher, but assumed that she was just the best improviser that we knew. As we have traveled the world and seen more improv, it turns out that she is one of the best in the whole world too! Lisa has served as the artistic director of BATS, was the only improviser chosen from the USA to be in the cast of Impro Amsterdam 2024, and Status magazine (which is a GOATed publication) included her on a short list of improv teachers who deserve Three Michelin Stars. But don't just take our word for it, give it a listen to see how great sausage is made!

The second part of the interviews that I got from Flock Festival, this episode features the voices of the international guests who had come from far and wide to take part! 

It includes interviews with:

Liam Webber

Chris Mead 

Maria Ramis

Auri Itämäki

Isabel Brodie

Adria Lerma

Katy Schutte

Phill Spear

Lê Kim Thanh

Julia

This special live episode, I interview great improvisers while they play the dutch game of Sjoelen. Flock Theater in Amsterdam is the best improv theater that I have seen anywhere in the world, and I hope these episodes will shed some light on how it runs! This is the first in a two part series of interviews from Flock Festival in Amsterdam, with the first one focusing on local talent and members of the Flock Community. 

This first episode features interviews with: 

Gael Doorneweerd-Perry

Laura Doorneweerd-Perry

Tanine Dunais

Mark Bulthuis

Mateusz Barczyk

Hal Munger

Thom Roelofs

Babbette Hinterleitner

Jeroen du Chatinier

Rosanne Eschweiler

Daniel Potts

Gerit Scholz

Dr. Mark Smith joins the podcast for the first episode of our GOATs Series, where we interview great improvisers to try to understand how they got to where they are today. Mark is the artistic director of the Liverpool Improvisation Festival, has a very substantial body of work in improvised and scripted theater, and he wrote his doctoral thesis on how improvisation can be applied to devised theater. If you are interested in the blending of improvisation and theater, this episode is for you!

A duo show, recorded live at the Unscripted Shakespeare Festival featuring Hal Munger and John Mistele! This is the audio of the show that we are bringing to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Julian is adjusting to his new job, so he will be back on the podcast soon to begin an exciting new series but in the meantime I hope you enjoy the Flicker of the Flame:

Video Version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOKc7C5lu0

For the final episode of our A New Play series, Julian interviews Hal about directing A New Play. 

Apologies for the upload delay, Hal was running the UnScripted Shakespeare Festival! We are right back at it debriefing the final two nights of A New Play! Our intro music by Sebastian Blue Hochman famously comes from night four!

Night Three watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_G9zNJv3Q

Night four watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5lApi_65io

We rewatched nights One and Two of A New Play and talked through how they went!If you haven't seen them go check them out!

A New Play Night One:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjeb4BI1o-0

A New Play Night Two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2qDjmWah6g&t=19s 

Our third episode about the physical improvisers gets deep into the specific techniques that we developed for A New Play. Many of these techniques never made it into the performances, so this is the first time they are available to the world!

Live interviews with the cast of Taxi Tales from the Liverpool Improvisation Festival! Taxi tales was an incredible show created and directed by Dr. Mark Smith that tells the story of twelve taxi rides over the course of one night. An enormous thank you to everyone involved with LiF for making this such a magical experience! 

You can find out more by following @liverpool_improv_festival on instagram or visiting https://www.liverpoolimprovfestival.com/ 

Guests:

Josie Throup @josiemakesitup @Drunkclassicsmanchester

Adrià Lerma @adria.lerma

Samuel Pownall @samuelpownall

Anthony Saldana @anthonya.saldana

Diana Brown @dianalynnbrown3330

Shotgun Theater: https://thepit-nyc.com/events/shotgun-theater/ 

Diana's workshop:

https://www.thornandpetalstick.com/event-details/rogues-ruffians-and-wiley-wits-improvising-bawdy-characters-in-the-style-of-shakespeare