The Improv Teachers

Bill Binder joins us this week! Bill began performing in Michigan in 1994 where he performed for six years before moving to Phoenix, AZ. Bill helped organize the first Phoenix Improv Festival in 2002, spent two years training at iO West in Los Angeles and was one of the founding members of The Torch Theatre.

You can find Bill on:

Twitter: @whbinder

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007984294538

This week's episode we welcome Josh Nicols.

Josh has been performing improv for 25 years. He co-founded Spectacles Improv Engine, created the Orange County Improv fest and co-founded The Improv Cup, a charity improv tournament in its 7th year. He performs with Ounce of Behavior and Community Theatre 3000. He focuses on organic grounded improv as a student, teacher and performer.

You can find Josh on social media at:

Twitter @JoshNicols

FB: ImprovJosh

Website: Spectaclesimprov.com

Michael Jastroch is one of the founders of ColdTowne Theater in Austin Texas, where he's been teaching improv for the last decade. He's taught at festivals all over the country, and he can be seen every Thursday night with his improv group the Frank Mills or heard on his improv and sketch comedy podcast, Victrola.

To find Michael on social media:

twitter.com/jastroch

facebook.com/jastroch

instagram.com/jastroch

Jay Sukow will gladly talk endlessly about how much better the world would be if everyone took just one improv class. He has trained with, among others, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Jon Favreau, Keith Johnstone, Del Close and Mick Napier. He is the founder of Today Improv, where he teaches improv to actors, business, and everybody else. He is currently on faculty at The Second City Hollywood and M.i.'s Westside Comedy Theater and has taught and performed at theaters and festivals throughout the world.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/today-improv-with-jay-sukow-los-angeles https://www.facebook.com/todayimprov/

John Windmueller loves improv. Loves it! John has over a decade of experience teaching and performing, and he has led sold-out workshops at improv festivals and camps across the US. He teaches, coaches, and performs with both the Washington Improv Theater (WIT) and the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), and he currently performs with mainstage ensembles King Bee (WIT) and Lekker (BIG), along with numerous side projects (Flannel Club, j/k, Local Spot, Remote Possibilities, and Unscripted). John regularly performs in festivals across the US, and is one of the founders and organizers of the District Improv Festival.

You can find John online at:

https://www.facebook.com/john.windmueller

https://twitter.com/jwindm

http://witdc.org

Paul Vaillancourt joins us as our first guest! We discuss being a teacher in the world of improv!

Paul is the co-founder (with Charna Halpern) of the iO West and has been teaching and performing improv for close to 30 years. In that time he has appeared all over the country including such notable venues as HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Chicago’s iO (where he studied with the immortal Del Close), New York’s UCB Theater, and Austin's Out of Bounds Festival to name a few. Paul has also had success as a writer and producer, co-creating and serving as supervising writer for the MTV hit “The Blame Game” as well as lending his writing and producing talents to a score of other shows for MTV, VH1, USA, Oxygen, Bravo and AMC. He published his first book about improv called “The Triangle of the Scene” (available on iBooks and Amazon Kindle) and, for the past year and a half, has been producing a weekly series of videos called “Improv Tips” available on his YouTube channel PVImprov.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pvimprov

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatsUpWithPV (@whatsupwithpv) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsupwithpv/ (@whatsupwithpv)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/pvimprov

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