I start every improv session that I run with word association.  I love it. Some players are reminded of the therapist’s couch, this free verbal association reminiscent of psychoanalysis, and are afraid of what it might reveal.     This…

In longform improv, unlike shortform, the performers most often edit themselves.  Usually in shortform there is an MC/director, either running the whole show or each individual game, who calls “scene” at the end of the scene.  Either way, learning when…