Improv Exercises
Drills and exercises to practice specific improvisation skills.
Communication (188)Creativity (187)Listening (185)Group Mind (120)Adaptability (113)Scene Work (108)Emotional Intelligence (107)Team Building (96)Physicality (46)Agreement (45)Energy (40)Presentation (33)Conflict Resolution (11)
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A
- A Moment of Silence
- Acceptance
- Accepting Circle
- Ace
- Achievement
- Acting Natural
- Action Charades
- Action Syllables
- Action Whisper
- Action and Entrance
- Action and Justify
- Activity Starter
- Actor Switch
- Adaptability
- Adapting to Ambiguous Information
- Adjective Scene
- Advance Jointly
- Advancing and Expanding
- Aerobics
- Agreement Scenes
- Ahab and the Whale
- Airport
- Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
- Alien Dance Party
- Alien Tiger Cow
- All Hands on Deck
- Alliances
- Alliteration Introduction
- Alliterations
- Alphabet Circle
- Alphabet Game
- Alphabet Letters
- Alphabet Soup
- Alternate Uses Test (AUT)
- And Then
- Anecdotes
- Animal Circle
- Animal Farm
- Animal Understudy
- Animalistics
- Animals
- Annoyance Scenes
- Anyone Who
- Argue like a Philosopher
- Arguments
- Arm Levitation
- Arm Link
- Arm Tangle
- Arm Zapper
- Artist Model Clay
- As You Will
- Asides
- Assassins
- Associatioin Chain
- Association Jump
- Audience Warm-Ups
- Automatic Storytelling
- Automatic Writing
B
- Back Dancing
- Back to Back
- Bad Ad Product Game
- Baffling Ball
- Ball Toss
- Bandaid Tag
- Bappety Boo
- Barney
- Barnyard
- Be Specific
- Be in the Moment
- Beads on a String
- Bear of Poitiers
- Bear, Fish, Mosquito
- Become
- Believe It or Not
- Benefit of the Doubt
- Bibbidy Bibbidy Bop
- Big Blob
- Big Body Tiny Head
- Big Booty
- Big Fish Small Fish
- Bing, Bang, Bong
- Bippety Bop
- Blind Association Circle
- Blind Hunt
- Blind Lead
- Blind Line Offers
- Blind Line Up
- Blind Run
- Blind Stalker
- Blindfolded Scene
- Blocked Vs. Unblocked Scenes
- Board Races
- Bobsledding Bodies
- Body Hide
- Bong Bong Bong
- Boring Scenes Circle
- Box Full of Hats
- Brain Drain
- Breakfast of Champions
- Breathing
- Breathing for Concentration and Focus
- British Bulldog
- Bubble and Squeak
- Building Blocks Brainstorm
- Building Rapport
- Bumpity Bump
- Bunny
- Bunny Bunny
- Buzzwords, Acronyms, and Jargon
C
- Camera Game
- Can You Hear Me Now?
- Canadian Who What Where
- Card Status
- Cat and Mouse
- Catch'em
- Category Tag
- Celebrity Press Conference
- Center of Gravity
- Change
- Change the Rules
- Character / Scene Walkabout
- Character Dial-Up
- Character Interview
- Character Mirror Circle
- Character Monologue
- Character Study
- Character Swap
- Character Switch
- Character Walk
- Charring Cross
- Chat Then Add an Activity
- Check-In
- Cheers I’m an Alien
- Chinese Whispers
- Choir
- Circle Sitting
- Circle of Awesome
- Circle of Expectation
- Circle of Extraordinary Coincidences
- Circle of Knots
- Clap Around the World
- Clap Focus
- Clap Olympics
- Clap Out
- Clap Snap Association
- Clap Snap Stamp
- Cliched Characters Instant Depth
- Click Bang You're Dead
- Clingy Penguin
- Clown 12345
- Coaching and Conflict Management
- Cocktail Party
- Collaboration
- Color/Advance
- Columbian Hypnosis
- Come over Here If…
- Commando
- Commercial Capers
- Communal Monologue
- Complete Bodies
- Concentration
- Concentration Circle
- Conch Shell
- Conducted Story
- Conflict Resolution
- Conflict Scenes
- Confusion and Not
- Constructive Debate
- Continuing Emotions
- Copy Dance
- Copy Line
- Copycat
- Count Off
- Count Yes/No in a Day
- Countdown
- Crazy 8s
- Crazy Talk
- Create (and Sell) a Product That Can't Be Sold
- Create Obstacles
- Create Your Environment
- Create a Failure Resume
- Creative Inspiration
- Creative Solution Building
- Creatures of the Deep
- Crescendo
- Critical Thinking
- Cross Circle
- Cross the Circle
- Curveball Story
- Customer Service
- Cut
- The Cycle of Deep Yes And
D
- Dada Monologue
- Danish Clapping
- Delegation
- Describe Me If You Can
- Describe a Room
- Descriptive Story
- Diddly Dum
- Digits
- Dissociation
- Distance Game
- Distorting Mirror
- Diversity
- Do It As If
- Do More with Less
- Do Ron Ron
- Do You like Your Neighbour?
- Dog, Dog, Dog
- Don't Mess with Textus
- Don't Think of the Color Black!
- Donut
- Double Opening
- Dr. Know-It-All
- Drawing the Line
- Drop Inhibitions
- Duck Duck Goose
- Ducks and Cows
E
- Echo Listening
- Effective Meetings
- Eight Things
- Eights
- Electric Company
- Elements
- Elephant
- Elephant It
- Elevator
- Emotional Carpool
- Emotional Endowment
- Emotional Manipulation
- Emotional Mirror
- Emotional Option
- Emotional Quadrants
- Emotional Rollercoaster
- Emotional Self-Control
- Emotional Squares
- Emotions Characters
- Empathy
- Empathy and Organizational Awareness
- Endowments
- Energy 1-10
- Energy Breathing
- Enter and Exit
- Environment Build One by One
- Ethics
- Everybody Touch Someone Who...
- Evolution
- Exaggeration Circle
- Excluding
- Exposure
- Eye to Eye
F
- Fabulous Conference Calls
- Faces
- Fake Ads
- Family Portraits
- The Farming Juggle
- Fast Food Laban
- Fast Food Stanislawski
- Fast Montage
- Feedback
- Final Freeze
- Finger Applause
- Fingertips
- Finish the Word
- Firing Squad
- First Word Best Word
- First and Last Line
- Fish Sticks
- Fishbowl
- Fistorama
- Five Four Three Two One
- The Five Second Rule
- Five Things
- Flatmates Just Do Nothing
- Flexibility
- Flip
- Flock Dance
- Flow Circle
- Flying Idea Cards
- Follow Your Nose
- Follow the Follower
- Follow the Leader
- Follow the Leaver
- Foot Soldiers
- Foot Touch Tag
- Four-Chair Fishbowl
- Free Association
- Free Association Circle
- Free Association Lines
- Free Falling
- Freeze Frame
- Freeze Tag
- Freeze Tag Round One
- Freeze Tag Round Two
- Friendly Hands
- Fruit Basket
- Fruitcake
- Fuck Yeah!
- Funny You Should Say That!
- Fusillade
- Fuzzy Ducky
G
- Generate New Ideas
- Gesture Circle
- Gibberish
- Gibberish Commands
- Gibberish Games
- Gibberish Malapropism
- The Gift
- Gift Giving
- Give and Take
- Giving a Gift
- Good Improviser Bad Improviser
- Good Morning!
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Grandmother’s Footsteps
- Gratitude
- Gravitational Silly Walk
- Great, Next Character
- Greetings
- Group Environment
- Group Freeze
- Group Mirror
- Group Order
- Group Scene Point of View
- Group Stare
- Growing and Shrinking Machine
- Guilty by Association
H
I
- I Am a Tree
- I Know
- I Like You Because/I Love You Because
- I Like. I Wish. What If?
- I Love You
- I Love You, I Hate You
- I Made a Mistake!
- I Need A…
- I'll Have a Coke
- I'm a Piece of Cheese
- Identify Reactions
- Identify Triggers
- Identify When People Say No
- Identity Theft
- If This Person Were a Shoe
- Image Expert
- Imaginary Ad Game
- Imitate
- Impro Catch
- Improvisation Dance Circle
- In Someone Else's Shoes
- In-Out
- Incomplete Figure Test (IFT)
- Infinite Box
- Influence
- Inspirational Leadership and Teamwork
- The Interrupter
- Interrupting
- Interrupting Variation
- The Interviewing Process
- Introduce Yourself!
- Introducing Association
- Invisibility
- Invocation
- Is There Any More?
- It’s Tuesday
- I’ll Keep
- I’m Great, You’re Great, We’re Great
- I’m Watching You Watching Me
- I’ve Got a Word That Rhymes With…
J
K
L
- Last Letter
- Last Letter Scene
- Last Text You Sent
- Last Word Response
- Last Word, First Word
- The Lawyer
- Lcd
- Leadership
- Leading with Body Parts
- Learn to Be Looked At
- Leave Me Alone
- Leave for a Reason
- Let Go
- Let Me Have It
- Lets Not
- Letter Number Name
- Lifting a Player
- Limericks
- Line Mirror
- Listen Up ... Listen!
- Listen to Learn
- Listen to Understand, Not to Respond
- Listening Exercise (Eyes Closed)
- Listening Game
- Location
- Location, Relationship, Escalate, End
- Look I Have A
- Loosen Up
- Loser Ball
- Lost Friend
- Love You
- Low
- Lugares
M
- Machine
- Mafia
- The Magnet
- Maintain Focus
- Maintain the Improv Culture
- Make More Interesting
- Make a Game
- Makes Me Think Of
- Making Faces
- Man Overboard
- Managing Change
- Mantra
- Mantra Introduction
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Massage
- Matrix Madness/You
- Me, Me, Me Syndrome
- Meal
- Meditation to Scenes
- Meet & Greet Walkabout
- Meet Your Chimp
- Meetings That Matter
- Mexican Name Wave
- Millipede
- Mimic
- Mind Meld
- Mine Field
- Mirror
- Mirror/Follow the Follower
- Monologue Thief
- Montage Ending
- Montage Song Ending
- More or Less
- Motivation
- Move On
- Move a Player
- Move and Speak
- Moving Picture
- Moving Stories
- Moving Through -- Stream of Consciousness
- Mr so and So
- My Fault
N
O
- Object Circle
- Object Endowment
- Object Morphing
- Object Narrative
- Objects
- Observe
- Obstacle Course
- Offering Support
- On the Beach
- One Duck
- One Line Scene
- One Line at a Time
- One Minute Life Story
- One Two Three Four
- One Voice
- One Voice Expert
- One-Word Sentence
- One-minute Wanders
- Open Improv Scenes
- Open Offer
- Open Your Hand
- Opposite Characters
- Opposite Side Speech
- Opposites
- Orchestra
- Ordinary Object
- Ordinary Scene Until Ridiculous
- Organized Chaos
- Out of the Box
P
- Paired Drawing
- Paperclip Game
- Paraphrase
- Parts of a Whole
- Party Planning
- Pass Ball
- Pass Catch
- Pass Yes
- Pass the Clap
- Passing Around Objects
- Patterns
- Pauze
- Peas in a Pod
- Pecking Order
- Penguin Chairs
- Performance of an Audience
- Performing Curiosity
- Personalize It!
- Persuade
- Peruvian Ball Game
- Picnic Basket
- Picture Story
- Piece of Cheese
- The Pineapple
- Pivot
- Play Date
- Play Tag
- Play With
- Point of View
- Point of View Post-It Notes
- Point to Things in the Room
- Pointing Story
- Popcorn
- Portrait
- Positive Chair Exercise
- Positive Outlook
- Positive Scene Challenge
- The Power of No
- The Power of Questions
- Predator/Defender
- Premise Lawyer
- Present without Scripting
- Presents
- Primal Screams
- Prioritizing
- Problem Solving
- Puppets
Q
R
- Radical Relationality
- Random Images
- Random Words
- Rant
- Rapid Numbers
- Receiver Right Clap
- Red Ball
- Red Light Green Light
- Red Teaming
- Remember the Time
- Remote Associates Test (RAT)
- Repeat and Add
- Repeated Scene
- Repetition
- Replay Gibberish
- Reverse Chair Dance
- Rewind and Unblock
- Rhythm Machine Part One: The Blank Machine
- Rhythm Machine Part Three: The Oppression Machine
- Rhythm Machine Part Two: The Image Machine
- Riddles
- The Right Attitude
- Rip Van Winkle
- Rituals
- Rock Paper Scissors
- Roller Coaster
- Royal Status Game
- Rubber Chicken/crazy Eights
- Rug Flip
- Run Around
S
- SNAP!
- Same Time Story
- Samurai
- Scene / Character Walkabout
- Scene Carousel
- Scene Painting
- Scene Repeater
- Scene Replay
- Scene to Music
- Scenes That Bring You Joy
- Scenes from a Suggestion
- Scenes in the Same Setting
- Scorpion
- The Scream
- Screamers
- Sculptors
- Self-Awareness: Identify Emotions
- Seven Up
- Sevens
- Share Your Story
- Shared Activity
- Shared Holiday
- Shriner's Warm-Up
- Shuffle
- Sign Pass
- Silent Organization
- Silly Stinky Sexy
- Silo-Busting Exercise
- Similar Uses Test (SUT)
- Simon Says
- Simple Continuation
- Sink to the Floor
- Sit Stand Lie Lean
- Sitting Standing Lying
- Sky Falls
- Slap Take
- Slappy Face
- Slomo Tag
- Snap Clap Stomp Cheer
- Snap Pass
- Social Status
- Sock 'Em
- Solitaire
- Solo Sevens
- Something Old Something New
- Sound Ball
- Sound Circle
- Sound Follow
- Sound Sensations
- Sound and Motion
- Speck
- Speedy Get to Know You
- Spit Take
- Split Focus
- Spoken Thoughts
- Sportscaster Olympics
- Squeezer
- Stand Up/sit Down
- Standing on the Line
- Statues
- Status Party
- Status Pass
- Status Picnic
- Status Scene With Numbers
- Status Scene With Partners
- Status Shuffle
- Status Walk
- Step on Stage to Build a Relationship
- Stop Shuffle Walk Drop
- Stop. Start. Continue.
- Story Circles
- Story Conductor
- Story Spine
- Story String
- Story Swap
- Story Time
- Story Walk
- Story of Your Name
- Story to a Chair
- Storyboarding
- Straight Story
- Stretching
- Strike a Pose
- Supernova
- Support
- Surprise Movement
- Surprising Surface
- Suspend Judgments
- Swedish Sculptors
- Swedish Story
- Switch Gibberish
- Synchro Clap
- Synchronised Clapping
- Synchronised Dance
- Systems Check
T
- Tagout
- Tai Chi
- Take That Back
- Talk It Out
- Talk Without I
- Talk to the Hand
- The Tallest Tower
- Tangible Concepts
- Team Confidence
- Telltales
- Ten Commandments
- Ten Titles
- Thank You
- Thank You Statues
- That Scene Was About
- The Thing
- The Wave
- Think on Your Feet
- This Is Jane
- Three Changes
- Three Line Environment
- Three Line Scenes
- Three Line Solo
- Three Melodies
- Three Noses
- Three Rules
- Three Sentence Story
- Three Things
- Three in a Circle
- Three in the Middle
- Three-Second Pauses
- Time Bomb
- Timed Scenes
- To Spin a Yarn
- To the Point
- Toaster
- Tossing
- Totems
- Touch and Go
- Touch the Sky!
- Touch to Talk
- Touch to Talk and Eye Contact to Speak
- Tour of a Space
- Translate Gibberish
- Triangles
- Triggers
- True Stories
- Trust
- Trust Exercise
- Trust Walk
- A Truth about Me
- Truthful Scenes
- Tug of War
- Turbocharged Brainstorm
- Turkish Army Drill
- Turning Circle
- Twenty Objects
- Twenty Questions
- Two Players -- One Voice
- Two-Headed Expert
U
V
W
- Walk-over Association
- Walking by Numbers
- Walkout
- Warehouse
- We Can Sell Anything
- Week in Detail
- What Are You Doing
- What Has Changed
- What I Like About That Is
- What I Like about That
- What If?
- What They Said
- What Would She Be If
- What You Just Said
- What's in a Name?
- What's the Object?
- What's the Wrong Answer?
- What?
- Where Do the Fingers Go
- Where's the Object?
- Whiskey Mixer
- Who Am I?
- Who Stole the Cookies
- Who What Where
- Who Where Why Am I
- Who's the Leader?
- Whoosh
- Whoosh Bang Pow and Failure Bow
- Wink Murder
- Without Sound
- Without Words
- Word Ball
- Word Choice
- Word Restriction
- Word at a Time Letter
- Word at a Time Proverb
- Word at a Time Scene
- Word at a Time Song
- Word-at-a-Time Conflict
- Word-at-a-Time Partners
- Word-at-a-Time Story
- Workshop Buddies
- World Cafe Reflection