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YesBot episodes

  • Heather Urquhart

    Guest Name: Heather Urquhart

    Location: Brighton/London, UK
    Years improvising: 18
    Team affiliations: The Maydays, Showstopper, 10,000,000,000 Love Stories, The Playground, The Bumper Blyton Improvised Adventure
    Improv style: Truthful, silly, connected, musical (when I’m allowed)
    Website: www.heatherurquhart.com
    Twitter: @musicimprov
    Additional notes: Today’s robot is probably different to yesterday’s robot and tomorrow’s. Bit like improv I guess.

    Here’s a Youtube video that sums up life for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoTmNU_5A0

    28 min
  • Dylan Emery

    Guest Name: Dylan Emery

    Location: London
    Years improvising: 16 – although my first improv was actually 32 years ago when my amazing English teacher would do impro classes once a week.
    Team affiliations: The Showstoppers, Grand Theft Impro, The Crunchy Frog Collective, The School of Night, Ghost Couple, The London 50-Hour Improvathons, Extempore Theatre.
    Improv style: Theatrical. Ambitious. Well-acted or well clowned. Unexpected.
    Website: www.dylanemery.com
    Twitter: @dylanemery
    Additional notes: Something to watch – the brilliant Kurt Smeaton and his impro/sketch troupe Falcon Powder made a series of educational webcasts called The Whole Truths. First episode of six: Wolves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tND1J13xXH4

    45 min
  • Valerie Ward

    Guest Name:Valerie Ward

    Location: Austin TX
    Years improvising: 16
    Team affiliations: Parallelogramophonograph, Echo Lake
    Improv style: Narrative, organic, stylized, playful, connected
    Website: www.pgraph.com
    Additional notes: What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable. -Andre Gide

    36 min
  • Joe Samuel

    Guest Name: Joe Samuel

    Location: Brighton
    Years improvising: 40 on piano, 10 as an improviser musician
    Team affiliations: The Maydays, The Dreaming, Theatre De L’Oignon, The Concept
    Improv style: Music
    Website: www.joesamuel.co.uk

    39 min
  • Naomi Petersen

    Guest Name: Naomi Petersen

    Location: London
    Years improvising: 4
    Team affiliations: The Free Association, Sweet Fanny Adams, Nicely Turned Out, Wednesdays
    Improv style: Playful, Committed, Big On Game
    Website: www.thefreeassociation.co.uk
    Twitter: @NaomiPetersen

    31 min
  • Adam Meggido

    Guest Name: Adam Meggido

    Location: London
    Years improvising: FOREVER!!!!
    Team affiliations: Showstopper, The School of Night, Rhapsodes, The Society of Strange, The London 50 Hour Improvathons
    Improv style: LET’S PUT ON A SHOW!
    Website: www.theshowstoppers.org and www.extemporetheatre.com
    Twitter: @adammeggido
    Additional notes: I’ve worked in theatre all my life

    38 min
  • Rachel Parris

    Guest name: Rachel Parris

    Location: London
    Years Improvising: 10 years
    Team Affiliations: Austentatious, The Beau Zeaux, Monkey Toast
    Improv style: Long form narrative (in Austentatious anyway). In other things: Harold, scenic short-form, musical…
    Website: rachelparris.com
    Twitter: @rachelparris

    38 min
  • John Cremer

    Guest Name: John Cremer

    Location: Rural Sussex
    Years improvising: 24 years
    Team affiliations: The Maydays. Guest on Whirled News Tonight.
    Improv style: Character led, emotional, provocative, absurd.
    Website: www.johncremer.co.uk
    Twitter: @johncremer
    Additional notes: My main non-improv influences are Monty Python, Alan Partridge, Ivor Cutler, Van Morrison, George Gurdjieff, Beethoven, holocaust literature, Cheri Huber, Cormac McCarthy and salt water fly fishing.

    25 min
  • Ruth Bratt

    Guest Name: Ruth Bratt

    Location: London
    Years improvising: 17
    Team affiliations: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, The Glenda J Collective, guest with Comedy Store Players, The London Improvathon, Panthercannon, Ghost Couple, Letts Vegas
    Improv style: Narrative, fun, playful, generous. Good.
    Website: www.ruthbratt.com
    Twitter: @ruthbratt
    Additional notes: If I’m ever feeling down, I watch these videos.

    Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens

    Way Out West

    1 hr 1 min
  • David Shore

    Guest Name: David Shore

    Location: Toronto, Canada
    Years improvising: 20 years
    Team affiliations: Monkey Toast (Toronto and London), Bald (London), Alumnus Second City Mainstage (Toronto) & IO West
    Improv style: Organic Chicago-Style (focusing on letting the scene happen)
    Website: monkeytoast.com
    Twitter: @thedavidshore
    Additional notes: Taking risks in improv isn’t about making bold, big or crazy moves, it’s about trusting your ideas and yourself and not being afraid to suck or tank in front of an audience or your peers.

    38 min

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After finding an abandoned YesBot 5000 improv robot in the woods behind his house, improviser (and amateur roboticist) Chris Mead embarks on a mission to programme it to be the world's best…