Alex Lamb / Improv

I've been improvising since 1993 and in that time have worked with an extraordinary array of improvisers on both sides of the Atlantic. I've used the work of Keith Johnstone to develop my own teaching style: archetypal improv. This approach uses the best available research and techniques from literature, screen writing, cultural studies, psychology, and artificial intelligence to provide a framework for building complete improvised plays. These plays deliver complete narative arcs with rising tension, well defined plot strands, rounded, engaging characters, and plenty of opportunities for comedy.

I've recently moved to Berkeley. I don't have a new improv troupe yet, but I've recently started an improv blog called Thinking Improv to chart my progress here in the Bay Area.

Before Berkeley, I lived in Santa Cruz, where I started two improv troupes. Six Wheel Drive is the one that survived, and it continues to turn out some of the finest long-form improv theater on the west coast.

Before that, I lived in Cambridge, UK, where I founded and ran Amazing Spectacles. Britain's finest long form improv theater troupe.

Here are some of the other troupes I've worked with:

As well as classes on improv craft, I also run workshops on communication skills using improv techniques for a wide variety of clients, from business leaders to grad students. You can find more about them here, and also on the sites for the partnerships I'm involved with:

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