Absolutely Everything** You Need to Know about Teaching and Performing Improv is your personal guide to learning how to perform short-form improvisation consistently and successfully.

Every challenge, every activity, and every rule presented in the book is rooted in 20 years of teaching performers from all skill levels. Material has been hand-picked to include only the activities that have consistently proven successful at overcoming the common pitfalls that can plague the improviser-in-training.

Utilizing methods that are simple, easy to understand, and very, very fun, you will learn how to develop a program that allows one to maintain high expectations and create a professional looking product while still maintaining the informal revelry of game playing and humor.

Simply put, by using this book, one should be able to successfully mount any kind of short-form improv - be it corporate or student, single-team or festival, pre-professional or veteran - to the sound of riotous laughter and thunderous applause.

Table of Contents
 
Introduction:
So, Why Write This Book?

Chapter One:
The Five Rules of Improv 
The simple principles that guide all successful improv performance.

Chapter One, Part Two: The Seven Deadly Sins of Improv
The most common scene-killing mistakes players make.

Chapter Two:Warm-ups for Improv
How to design a warm-up. The three characteristics of a good warm-up routine. And a huge directory of warm-up games that target specific skills.

Chapter Three: Tune-up Activities for Team and Skill Building
In-depth activities for team practice to target and hone specific abilities.

Chapter Four: Time to Get Up: Improv Challenges
A solid directory of proven team and large group challenges. Tips and tricks to guarantee success in performance. When to use each challenge and what skills it targets.

Chapter Five: How to Structure an Improv Performance
The logistics involved in running a single group or inter-team performance. With bonus sample materials!

Chapter Six: Sample Workshop Formats
Proven workshop structures for sessions lasting from ½ to 4 hours.

Chapter Seven: A Glossary of Improv Terminology
The only dictionary you'll ever need!

Appendices:
Appendix A: List of 200 Character Endowments
Appendix B: List of 50 Theatre, Movie, and TV Styles
Appendix C: List of Remote Control Buttons
Appendix D: List of 100 Ask-fors to get Variables
Appendix E: List of 75 Die Game Questions & 35 Zulu Suggestions
Appendix F: List of 75 (plus 5) Premises for Scenes from a Hat

Indices:
Index of All Activities by Page
Index of Warm-ups by Skill
Index of Tune-ups by Skill
Index of Challenges by Skill
Index of Challenges by Usage