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Lacy Alana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and improviser who eclectically combines her clinical expertise with her passion for creative expression. Accordingly, she has created several innovative and experiential therapeutic and arts programs for at-risk youth, youth with autism, and training programs for educators and clinicians who work with youth.
Webpages
Building Connections program in Austin, TX
www.lacyalana.com/free-resources
Videos
A video about Building Connections
Jim Ansaldo conducts research, supports school change efforts, and facilitates educator professional learning around Applied Improvisation, culturally responsive practice, curriculum design, instructional consultation, and online learning at the Center on Education and Lifelong Learning at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University. Jim has performed and taught improv comedy and musical improv for 25 years.
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Karen Dawson coaches executives, facilitates team and organizational experiences that build collaboration muscles while getting important work done. Asks provocative questions that help people get unstuck. Loves a good glass of red and cracking open the conversation at a cocktail party. Past lives: theatre teacher; lieutenant in reserve military; instructor with the Canadian Cadet Gliding Program; short stint as a jail matron. Faculty at The Banff Centre, University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business and Royal Roads University. Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University, and PhD from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Calgary, Alberta Canada.
WebpagesDeeper Funner ChangeLiberating Structures – A favourite resource
Videos
Collaborative intelligence video
Apps
The free Liberating Structures app
Annalisa Dias is a citizen artist, theatre maker, community organizer and educator. She is a Producing Playwright with The Welders, a D.C. playwright's collective; and is Co-Founder of the DC Coalition for Theatre and Social Justice. Annalisa frequently teaches Theatre of the Oppressed workshops nationally and internationally and speaks about race, identity, decolonizing practice, and performance. She is a TCG Rising Leader of Color, and also works in diversity and inclusion full time at the American Political Science Association. M.A., Theatre History & Criticism, The Catholic University of America. Dual B.A., English & Religion, Boston University.
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About Annalisa DiasDC Coalition for Theatre and Social Justice
Theresa Robbins Dudeck is an impro and AI practitioner and scholar working in both academic and professional settings. She is considered one of the foremost teachers of Keith Johnstone’s Impro System. Theresa is Johnstone’s Literary Executor and author of Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography (Bloomsbury 2013). She is also co-founder/co-director of the Global Improvisation Initiative (GII). Theresa received her Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Oregon.
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Theresa Robbins DudeckGlobal Improvisation
Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography by Theresa Robbins Dudeck
Brad Fortier has been studying, teaching, performing, directing, and writing about improvised theatre for over 20 years. He currently works as the training and development coordinator for the Oregon Health Authority’s Office of Equity and Inclusion applying interactive and experiential methods from his improv toolkit. Brad is the author of Long-Form Improvisation: Collaboration, Comedy, and Communion (2010) and A Culture of Play: Essays on the Origins, Applications, and Effects of Improvised Theatre (2013).
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Field Innovation Team that sponsored the pilot program
Further reading
“What Can Improvised Theater Teach Us?”
Long-Form Improvisation: Collaboration, Comedy and Communion by Brad Fortier
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Gary Hirsch is the co-founder of On Your Feet, pioneering Applied Improvisation since 1998. Gary is also a visual artist and the creator of Botjoy, a global visual art experiment that uses over 30,000 hand-painted robots to explore collaboration, inspiration, and how art can help people.
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Krista Hoffmann-Longtin has a dual background in educational fields and in communication studies. She received her master’s degree in communication and then studied education leadership and policy for her doctorate with an emphasis on faculty development. Her combined training in education and communication theories have influenced her strong commitment to Applied Improvisation as a pedagogical technique and form of experiential learning.
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Krista Hoffmann-Longtin faculty page
Julie Huffaker designs wow-we-did-that experiences that help teams and organizations build collaborative capacity. Part facilitator, part strategic thought partner. Passionate about her paddle board and travel to hard-to-reach places. Past lives: Partner at improv-based consultancy On Your Feet; leadership educator in North America, Europe, Asia and Central America; author of The Deeper Funner Facilitation Cookbook; barista-to-marketing-strategist at Starbucks Coffee Company in 1990s. Faculty at the Banff Leadership Centre. Cultural anthropologist as Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina, MBA from Portland State University, MA in Human Development and PhD in Organizational Leadership & Change from Fielding University. Portland, Oregon USA.
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Faris Khalid is a Pakistan-based AI practitioner, designing and conducting soft skill development workshops for the corporate sector. He also conducts AI sessions at Karachi Grammar School and Cedar College. Although no longer an improv performer himself, he does host shows for Karachi-based short form comedy troupe, Improvistan, and has acted in three Pakistani feature films.
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Caitlin McClure designs and facilitates improv-based experiential learning programs for global organizations. Currently a Senior Consultant at Impact International, she spent five years at Tiffany & Co. leading and helping design Tiffany’s core leadership development programs. Her formative years were spent studying at BATS Improv and with Keith Johnstone. McClure received her M.A. in Adult Learning and Leadership at Columbia University.
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Neil Mullarkey, along with Mike Myers, co-founded improv troupe The Comedy Store Players in 1985. Neil still performs with them in London. His credits include Whose Line Is It Anyway? and two Austin Powers films. Since 1999, Neil has given keynote speeches and workshops on the applications of improvisational theatre to businesses in twenty-three different countries, which led him to write the book Seven Steps to Improve Your People Skills (2017).
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Videos
Neil Mullarkey on improv skills for leaders
Neil Mullarkey everything's an offer
Teresa Norton, the founder of StarMaker, brings a lifetime of professional theatre experience and over 30 years living in Greater China to her coaching, training, and consulting of executives in how to inspire confidence, lead with authenticity, communicate with impact, and engage across cultures.
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Jonathan P. Rossing has a dual background in educational fields and in communication studies. He studied higher education administration for his master’s degree and then pursued a doctoral degree in rhetoric and cultural studies, with a minor in critical pedagogy. His training in education and communication theories has influenced his strong commitment to Applied Improvisation as a pedagogical technique and form of experiential learning.
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Jonathan P. Rossing faculty page
Cathy Salit is a social entrepreneur, musical comedy improviser, executive coach, and CEO of the training and consulting firm Performance of a Lifetime. She started her career as an innovator and upstart at 12, when she dropped out of eighth grade and started an alternative school in an abandoned storefront in New York City. She’s a weekly columnist for Inc.com, and her work and thought leadership have been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, and Daniel Pink’s To Sell Is Human. Cathy is the author of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work.
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Nurses describing the process and results of the resiliency initiative
Further reading
Keith Sawyer is internationally known as a scientific expert on creativity, collaboration, and learning. He has published 14 books, including Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration, and over 80 scientific articles. Keith is the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He received his Computer Science degree from MIT and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago.
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http://www.unc.edu/home/rksawyer/
Link to PDFs of Keith Sawyer’s publications
Barbara Tint is a Psychologist and Professor of Conflict Resolution at Portland State University and works at many other universities worldwide. She is also a global trainer, facilitator, and consultant in areas of conflict resolution, dialogue, gender relations, intercultural dynamics, power and status, leadership, and change. She has been studying and applying improvisation since 2009 and serves as the President of the Applied Improvisation Network. She wonders if there’s still hope for her performance career.
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Mary Tyszkiewicz (“Dr. T”) has devoted her career to researching how to innovate for social good in the Washington, D.C., area. She is a small-group innovation expert and impact evaluator. Her Heroic Improv programs help small groups experience innovation through theatre improvisation activities to respond to life-threatening emergencies. She received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from Syracuse University.
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Amy Veltman is a partner in On Your Feet. She is an award-winning actor and writer who has been studying improv for over fifteen years in New York, Los Angeles, and Portland. She began her career as a professional screenwriter and then a marketing executive before joining On Your Feet in 2010.
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Phelim McDermott is the co-founder and an Artistic Director of Improbable. He has been performing and making improvised shows since 1985 when he first worked with Keith Johnstone. Since then, as a director, he has been working on getting improvisers to be theatrical and people who work in theatre to use improvisation. Improvised shows include: Improbable Tales, Animo, Lifegame, and The Still. He jumps from doing small impro gigs to directing large-scale shows at the Metropolitan Opera.The focus of Phelim's work has often been on making connections between forms that didn’t exist before. For example, puppetry/improvisation in Animo and opera/juggling in Akhnaten. Phelim directed the impro-devised musical Shockheaded Peter (1998), has won two Olivier awards, and was made an honorary doctor of Middlesex University in 2007. He is a co-founder of the International Institute of Improvisation
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Lee Simpson: In 1979 Bob Hewett, an English teacher in Great Yarmouth on the East coast of England, read Keith Johnstone’s Impro and it changed his life. He took the exercises to the lunchtime drama club and that changed Lee Simpson's.All of Lee's performing, writing, directing and teaching follows on from there. He co-founded Improbable and has been one of The Comedy Store Players for over 30 years but, Lee says, he has no more idea how to do it now than he did back in Great Yarmouth.
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