Fifty Key Improv Performers

Actors, Troupes, and Schools from Theatre, Film, and TV
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-41422-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Routledge Key Guides

Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary performance both onstage and onscreen.

The book features the luminaries of improv, like Viola Spolin, Keith Johnstone, and Mick Napier, while also featuring many of the less well-known figures in improvisation who have fundamentally changed the way we make and view comedy – people like Susan Messing, Jonathan Pitts, Robert Gravel, and Yvon Leduc. Due to improv’s highly collaborative nature, the book features many of the art form’s most important theatres and groups, such as The Second City, TJ & Dave, and Oui Be Negroes. While the book focuses on the development of improvisation in the United States, it features several entries about the development of improv around the globe.

Students of Improvisational Theatre, History of Comedy, and Performance Studies, as well as practitioners of comedy, will benefit from the wide expanse of performers, groups, and institutions throughout the book.

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fotis, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction  1. Forerunners  Part 2: The Icons  2. Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone  3. David Shepherd, Paul Sills, and Ted Flicker  4. Mike Nichols & Elaine May  5. Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal  6. Josephine Forsberg and Martin de Maat  7. Del Close and Charna Halpern  8. Mick Napier  Part 3: The First Groups  9. The Compass Players  10. The Committee  11. The Second City  12. The Groundlings  13. The Brave New Workshop  14. The Loose Moose Theatre Company  15. The Match – Robert Gravel and Yvon Leduc  16. IO  17. Comedysportz  18. The Comedy Store Players  19. The Annoyance  20. The Upright Citizens Brigade  Part 4: The Second Wave Luminaries  21. IO House Teams  22. TJ & Dave  23. Mark Sutton & Joe Bill  24. Susan Messing and Jonathan Pitts  25. Frances Callier, Shaun Landry & Oui Be Negros  Part 5: Film & Television  26. SNL and Sctv  27. Whose Line Is It Anyway?  28. Nick Cannon and Wild ’n Out  29. Robert Altman, Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, and Adam McKay  30. Mick Leigh, Christopher Guest, Larry David, and Sacha Baron Cohen  31. Steve Carell and Steven Colbert  32. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey  33. Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key  34. Middleditch and Schwartz  35. Improv Nerd  36. Comedy Bang! Bang!, Hello from the Magic Tavern, and Improv4humans  Part 6: The (Further) Expansion of Improv  37. Applied Improvisation  38. The Improv Ambassadors – Jason Chin, Patti Stiles, and Jill Bernard  39. The Improvised Shakespeare Company  40. Boom Chicago  41. Barbixas  42. 3PEAT, the Black Version, and Dark Side of the Room  43. Asian AF  Part 7: The International Powerhouses  44. Europe  45. Latin America  46. Australia, Africa, and Asia  Part 8: The Fourth Wave  47. The Pandemic & the Reckoning  48. The New Artistic & Executive Directors  49. The Fourth Wave Theatre  50. The Person You Cannot Believe I Didn’t Include

Über Autor(innen)

Matt Fotis is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Albright College, where he teaches improvisation, comedy studies, and writing for performance. He is the author of Satire & The State: Sketch Comedy and the Presidency (2020), Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold (2014), and co-author of The Comedy Improv Handbook (2016). He has published or presented on various topics, including improvisational theatre, new play development, political theatre, solo-performance, comedy studies, folklore studies, popular culture and more. His work has appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre/Practice, The Journal of American Drama & Theatre, Academic Minute, The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, The Encyclopedia of American Studies, McSweeney’s, and MLB.com, among others. He is an award-winning playwright and the co-founder and co-executive director of The First Thursday Comedy Series in Reading, PA.