Your Improv Brain

The week I recorded this trailer and my first episodes - the second week of September 2025 - Sam Altman had just tweeted “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there …

In this episode, I'm really getting into what I believe is the most important element for creating a compelling character: their point of view. I’ve found that the most interesting thing about a char…

Alt title: Get to Skin Suit Town: 3 Exercises to Improve Your Acting

In this episode, I'm diving into one of the best acting exercises you can give yourself: practicing scene work with little dialogue…

Your inner critic might be a key reason you feel stuck, anxious, or in your head during an improv scene. But trying to fight it or ignore it doesn't work. This episode reveals a completely different …

We know that failure is the engine of learning, but how do you actually practice it in a safe and productive way?

In this episode, I provide a full workout plan with SIX specific exercises designed t…

We are often taught that forgetting is a weakness, especially in improv where details seem really important. It's what we practice all the time!

However, forgetting can be a skill to practice. In this…

What if the key to becoming a great improviser is the number of failures you accumulate?

That moment when you feel like you have failed in a scene, or a scene is falling flat, can feel awful. But it …

To be a successful improviser, you have to communicate effectively with everyone on your team. But what happens when people think, communicate, and experience the world differently?

In this episode, …

That feeling of your mind going completely blank on stage is a top fear for any performer. But what if it's not a personal failure?

This week, I explain how this is often a biological response to bei…

Feeling frustrated, stuck, or even like you're getting worse at improv? This episode reframes the struggle.

Discover the difference between productive learning pain and the unnecessary pain that you …

If you struggle to come up with specific or original ideas in your improv scenes, there's something you can do between scenes to help with that struggle.

This episode of Your Improv Brain reframes the…

Are you sacrificing your well-being for your improv team? This episode of Your Improv Brain challenges the myth that good improvisers must be comedy doormats. Always saying yes outside the scene does…

Tired of being told to "just react like you would in real life" to ground an improv scene? This episode of Your Improv Brain explores advanced techniques for playing the voice of reason or grounded c…

Tired of being told to "get out of your head"? This episode of Your Improv Brain explores a different approach. Discover how your active inner voice, often seen as a distraction, can actually become …

This episode provides general suggestions to comedians, especially neurodivergent ones like us autistic and ADHD actors in comedy and improv, to protect our minds while engaging in comedy and with ot…

This marks one year of making podcast episodes! There are some changes happening next week, and here's what those changes are. And the things not changing (most of it isn't change). Yeah, STUFF IS HA…

Icebreakers. They're common in an improv class, at the top of a jam, or maybe when a team is just getting to know each other.

Some people love them.

Some people hate them.

Some of us have a love/hate re…

In part one of this episode series on emotions in improv, we looked at what alexithymia is, who experiences it and the variety of expression, and how it affects improv performers and the shared impro…

Alexithymia involves how a person identifies and experiences emotions, so it has a lot to do with an improv practice.

Part one of this two part episode series explores what alexithymia is, how it affe…

Notes (feedback) can be confusing for some student performers because of communication differences. This episode discusses what teachers can do to help improve and resolve some of the typical communi…