Improv Games Lab

Learn improv
by playing.

Improv is Vipassana with teammates: be present, notice your impulses, choose which to act on. Read how each game works, then practice it right here.

New Choice

Letting go of your first idea

• A scene plays out. At any moment the host calls "New choice!"
• The player must replace their last line with a completely different one.
• It trains you to hold ideas loosely and trust that another one is always coming.

Scene: "I told you not to feed the dragon after midnight."

Accepting and building

Group mind

Start the story with one word…

Feeling it in the body

Say this line out loud: "This is the last pancake on Earth."

Ready?

The emotion changes every 6 seconds. Commit with your whole body.

Physical offers

• Two players act out a scene. Someone yells "Freeze!" and the players stop mid-pose.
• A new player taps one out, takes their exact position and starts a brand-new scene justified by that pose.

Draw a prompt

Status and relationship

• Play a scene where one character has high status and one has low status.
• Halfway through, swap. How does the power shift show up in posture, eye contact and pace?

Draw a prompt