Voice Registry Podcast-Tracy Pattin’s VO Roundtable. Getting The Edge Through Improv (part 2)
March 3, 2009 by: Tracy Pattin
Bill Applebaum worked and studied Improvisation in Chicago with Del Close and Paul Sills. He worked onstage as a writer/performer at The Second City Theater in Chicago. Bill founded the Actors Improv Studio in Los Angeles and has been teaching Improv for the last 15 years. The Actors Improv Studio has a unique approach to improv these days that focuses on how improv helps people become better actors (and voice actors) by tapping into their creativity and not by being clever. It comes directly from those he studied with. Improv classes are ongoing at Compost Productions .
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Bill is amazing and absolutely right in regards to his approach about improv. I see actors auditioning all the time who shoot themselves in the foot with thinking that improving in auditions is about being clever and quick witted. It may (or may not) get a momentary laugh, but it surely shows us nothing in regards to an actors ability to be improvisational or creative, which is what we are looking for. Thanks Bill!
Thanks for your comments Mariko. Improv does get to the more truthful part of ourselves and takes the pressure off the need to be clever and quick witted.