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Your Improv Journey: Starting It, Building It, And Enjoying It, From the Hobby to the Stage

by Paul Drotos

A practical companion for the improv path

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A practical companion for the improv path

Paul Drotos frames improvisation as a developing practice, from first steps to repeated performances, with attention to both personal and professional aims. The book combines firsthand stories with lists, guiding questions, suggestions, and lessons on topics such as arranging a first show, navigating attitudes within improv, and responding to worries about being funny. Its scope reaches beyond performance basics to the role a performer’s own philosophy can play in shaping the experience. The mix of formats gives the subject a personal, reflective dimension alongside practical guidance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People beginning to explore improvisation and looking for starting points
  • Improvisers seeking ideas for developing their practice or moving toward performance
  • Performers interested in reflecting on improv as a personal or professional pursuit

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Improvisation practicePerformance and career developmentPersonal philosophyConfidence and attitudes in improv

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Book overview

Do you love improv but not know where to start? Maybe you're an improv veteran who can't help but feel they've lost their spark? Does the improv journey, suddenly or forever, seem out of reach?

In a book that appeals to the new and experienced alike, Paul Drotos lays out the basic starting points of improv, how to navigate an improv fascination from hobby to career, and how your own philosophy will shape your journey. Along the way you'll experience firsthand stories and hard-hitting lessons, as well as guiding questions and suggestions to help you start your own improv journey, whether it be personal or professional.

Through stories, lists, quotes, and tangents, Your Improv Journey takes you on an adventure from your first step into the world of improvisation to your hundredth show. This book walks a hungry performer through how they can arrange their first show, how to deal with the best and worst attitudes in improv, what to do if they're not funny, and MORE!

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