Summary
My library of 166 improv warm-ups, exercises, short form games, and long form structures, sorted by how they are used.
Warm Ups (37)
Games to get a group energized, focused, and connected.
- 5 Things
- Big Booty
- Bunny Bunny
- Circuits
- Common Ground
- Crazy Eights
- Emotional Symphony
- Flock Dance
- Foreign Legion variant
- Fuzzy Duck
- Goalie-Firing Line
- Headlines
- Hey nice shirt
- Horseshoe
- HotSpot
- ice breakers
- Kitty Wants a Corner
- Knight, Mount, Cavalier
- Leader of the Pack
- Numbers-21
- One-Word Story
- Pass the Clap
- Red Ball
- Same Boat Word Association
- Sound Ball
- Sound Circle
- Sun & Moon
- The Machine
- Tiger Martian salesperson
- Turning Circle
- Walk Stop
- whiskey mixer
- Whoosh Woah
- Word Association Reverse
- WordBall
- Yes Let’s
- zip zap zup
Exercises (36)
Skill-building drills for scene work.
- 5 Element Game
- Character Monologue Hotspot
- Confidence Practice
- Contact Scenes
- Corridors
- Diamond Character Build
- Emotions to Height Scene
- Environments
- Eye Contact Scenes
- Gibberish Bell
- Group Non-Verbal Activity
- How I feel
- I care because
- Invocation
- Johnson File
- Non-human shape
- OMG & I know
- One Silent Character
- Overlapping Yes
- Scene Painting
- scenes based on emotion
- Self Text
- Silent Scenes
- Silent Supporter
- Soliloquy
- Stakes Circle
- Sub Text
- Ted, the loquacious gardener
- Tell me About Myself
- The Gauntlet
- three step reaction
- Trifecta
- Two inanimate objects
- Typewriter Crossing
- Yes Because Circle
- Yes, AND
Short Form Games (78)
Quick, structured games for shows and classes.
- 99 Walk Into a Bar
- Advice Panel
- Alphabet Game
- And Then What Happened
- Audience Replay
- Bartender
- Blind Line
- Bookends
- Change
- Character Ding
- Circle of Friends
- Comic Book
- Conducted Story
- Confessional
- Dating Game
- Deaf Replay
- Donut Shop
- Dubbed Movie
- Emotional Rollercoaster
- Entrances and Exits
- Expert Interview
- FIFO
- First Line
- Fortunately Unfortunately
- Forward Reverse
- Four Square
- Freeze
- Gibberish Translator
- Good, Bad, Worse
- Group Time Warp
- Half-Life
- Hesitation
- Hitchhiker
- Human Props
- Interrogation
- Last Line Scene Tag
- Late for Work
- Luxury
- Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
- More Detail
- New Choice
- Object Transformation Circle
- Old Job New Job
- Options
- Oscar Moment
- Park Bench
- Party Quirks
- People’s Court
- Pillars
- Pop-Up Book
- Presents
- Press Conference
- Puppets
- Questions Only
- Reluctant Expert
- Replay
- Revolver
- Rhyming Scene
- Scene from a Hat
- Shoulda Said
- Sit, Stand, Lie
- Sound Effects
- Stage Directions
- Status Cards
- Superheroes
- Switch
- Talk Show
- This is your life
- Three-Headed Expert
- Time Warp
- Typewriter
- Use It In
- Vacation Slideshow
- Vocal Orchestra
- What Are You Doing
- World’s Worst
- Yes And Circle
- You’ve Changed
Long Form (12)
Longer forms built from connected scenes.
- Armando
- Bear Shark Mice
- Close Quarters
- Deconstruction
- Director’s Cut
- Harold
- La Ronde
- Monoscene
- Montage
- Movie Time
- Pretty Flower
- Slacker