Weekly Games from The Playbook: Improv Games for Performers

Fingers: Improv Game to make you bolder

Fingers: Instead of improvising with your whole body, put two fingers on top of a…

Quick Description To play flashlight theater, the players improvise without stage lights. They are lit…

Quick Description Audience members on stage are prompted to tell the players what to say. …

Quick Description Early in an improvised scene, a director (host or other player) stops the…

Players tell a story starting with a statement. Every subsequent part of the story starts…

Quick Description Players mimic items found at a garage sale, and one player interacts with…

Players create evolving tableaus by adding themselves as elements to a scene, each declaring their…

Short Description Players British (Britty) accent gets thicker with every ring of the bell. How…

"Experience the dynamic Good Acting: Bad Acting improv game where players switch between good and…

A storytelling activity that is easy to run and offers many learning points. One person…

Quick Description He Said She Said is a two-player game where one player speaks the…

How to Play A caller (Host, Emcee, member of the other team or audience member)…

How to Play Two players are chosen to go off stage and placed into the soundproof booth…

How to Play Players ask the audience for a foreign language they studied while in…

Quick Description To play I am a story…participants pick up something within arms reach of…