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Pan Theater

Improv - Blog

These are articles written by Pan performers, instructors, students and alumni over the years. Plus one or two posts - reposted with permission. 


Please feel free to repost as long as you maintain a link to the original article and Pan Theater website in the reposting. 


Include the author’s name on the repost All rights are reserved. No other uses other than the one listed above allowed.

Start here:
Newest Article:
From Homeless to New Hampshire with Improv



The Basics
Rules of Improv

How to be a Better Improvisor

Pan Articles:


1. Accepting and Acceptance a guide for the improv actor - how to


2. Acting Class San Francisco Bay


3. Acting Classes in the San Francisco Bay Area


4. An improv scene simplified


5. Changes and being Changed


6. Character Work for Scripted Theater and Improvised Theater


7. Meisner Technique and Improv Acting


8. Giving gifts - improv acting acts of kindness


9. Group Mind in improv theater, or the Inspired Cannibals


10. Group scenes and improv theater games - how to improv


11. Helen Morgan - Pan Theater's #1 improv theater fan


12. How to Find Improv in Oakland in 3 Easy Steps


13. How to Get Good at Improv in Ten or Twenty Years


14. I like Ramen or inside the Improv Dojo


15. Improv


16. Improv Comedy or Improv Theater?


17. Improv Comedy Shows in Oakland a Night of Shows


18. Improv Guru David Razowsky at Pan Theater Interview Part II


19. Improv Guru Part I


20. Improv Guru/ Interview with David Razowsky Part III


21. Improv Guru/ Razowsky Interview Part IV


22. Improv Guru Razowsky Part V


23. Improv Theater Auditions Again


24. Improv Theater or making stuff up what it is short form and long form


25. Improv Theatre at Pan Theater


26. Learning about life in improv


27. Meisner Technique


28. More fun than typical San Francisco Comedy Clubs


29. Pan Theater Comedy Improv in the East Bay Express


30. Pan Theater improv actors and students in their own words


31. Pan Theater Play Fest Anything Can Happen


32. Pan's benefit Oakland show of the Vagina Monologues for V-Day 2012


33. Performance improv classes at Pan, my new class


34. Some Reasons People Do Improv


35. San Francisco Bay Area Improv shows since February of 2002


36. Summer auditions - improvising, listening and learning


37. Ten Ways to Get Better at Improv Acting


38. thank you Skip Evans from Pan Theater (Pick A Name Theater)


39. The mirror improv theatre game and Meisner Technique


40. the Shows are Done


41. Theater Games


42. Theater Games and Character Work at Pan


43. To be, or not to be - improv choices


44. Tonight's Town Comedy Improv Show


45. Elevate Your Oakland Improv Experience with Space Objects


46. We're not the Fox and We're not the Paramount - Oakland's Pan Theater


47. Words to Improv By or a Comedy Improv Primer


48. Zucchini the Oakland improv show


49. Kiss the Lizard


50. What's Talent and How Do I Get Some?


51. Making Sense of the Merkle


52. Comedy Mistakes and Opportunities


53. Forget the Alphabet


54. Teaching and Directing Improv


55. Acronym For Success