Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary performance both onstage and onscreen.
The book features the luminaries of improv, like Viola Spolin, Keith Johnstone, and Mick Napier, while also featuring many of the less well-known figures in improvisation who have fundamentally changed the way we make and view comedy people like Susan Messing, Jonathan Pitts, Robert Gravel, and Yvon Leduc. Due to improvs highly collaborative nature, the book features many of the art forms most important theatres and groups, such as The Second City, TJ & Dave, and Oui Be Negroes. While the book focuses on the development of improvisation in the United States, it features several entries about the development of improv around the globe.
Students of Improvisational Theatre, History of Comedy, and Performance Studies, as well as practitioner of comedy, will benefit from the wide expanse of performers, groups, and institutions throughout the book.
Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary performance both onstage and onscreen.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Forerunners Part 2: The Icons
2. Viola Spolin
and Keith Johnstone
3. David Shepherd, Paul Sills, and Ted Flicker
4. Mike
Nichols & Elaine May
5. Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal
6. Josephine Forsberg
and Martin de Maat
7. Del Close and Charna Halpern
8. Mick Napier Part 3:
The First Groups
9. The Compass Players
10. The Committee
11. The Second City
12. The Groundlings
13. The Brave New Workshop
14. The Loose Moose Theatre
Company
15. The Match Robert Gravel and Yvon Leduc
16. IO
17. Comedysportz
18. The Comedy Store Players
19. The Annoyance
20. The Upright Citizens
Brigade Part 4: The Second Wave Luminaries
21. IO House Teams
22. TJ & Dave
23. Mark Sutton & Joe Bill
24. Susan Messing and Jonathan Pitts
25. Frances
Callier, Shaun Landry & Oui Be Negros Part 5: Film & Television
26. SNL and
Sctv
27. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
28. Nick Cannon and Wild n Out
29. Robert
Altman, Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, and Adam McKay
30. Mick Leigh, Christopher
Guest, Larry David, and Sacha Baron Cohen
31. Steve Carell and Steven Colbert
32. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey
33. Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key
34.
Middleditch and Schwartz
35. Improv Nerd
36. Comedy Bang! Bang!, Hello from
the Magic Tavern, and Improv4humans Part 6: The (Further) Expansion of
Improv
37. Applied Improvisation
38. The Improv Ambassadors Jason Chin,
Patti Stiles, and Jill Bernard
39. The Improvised Shakespeare Company
40.
Boom Chicago
41. Barbixas
42. 3PEAT, the Black Version, and Dark Side of the
Room
43. Asian AF Part 7: The International Powerhouses
44. Europe
45. Latin
America
46. Australia, Africa, and Asia Part 8: The Fourth Wave
47. The
Pandemic & the Reckoning
48. The New Artistic & Executive Directors
49. The
Fourth Wave Theatre
50. The Person You Cannot Believe I Didnt Include
Matt Fotis is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Albright College, where he teaches improvisation, comedy studies, and writing for performance. He is the author of Satire & The State: Sketch Comedy and the Presidency (2020), Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold (2014), and coauthor of The Comedy Improv Handbook (2016). He has published or presented on various topics, including improvisational theatre, new play development, political theatre, soloperformance, comedy studies, folklore studies, popular culture and more. His work has appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre/Practice, The Journal of American Drama & Theatre, Academic Minute, The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, The Encyclopedia of American Studies, McSweeneys, and MLB.com, among others. He is an award-winning playwright and the cofounder and coexecutive director of The First Thursday Comedy Series in Reading, PA.
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