Karin Armbrust

Improv Rocks!

Karin's Improv Tools

This is an unoffical site for us Improvisors so that we can work on our craft alone. It will not show up on a search engine. It's geared toward ComedySportz but can be used for any improv style.

This is Version 2 of this generator. I've added the Quick Witted Naming section and reformatted the other sections. For Version 3 I'm going to put together a memory game that uses words/phrases to help us all (IE. me) get better at 4 Things. Enjoy!

Initials

Get Two or Three Initials and play a game!

  • What Are You Doing?
  • Alphabet Soup (or whatever that game is where you speak without using the letters)





Rap Games

Do Rap Rap

Pick a Single Syllable Name, or challenge yourself to a Two Syllable Name, turn on the music and give it a go.
Sing like no one's listening! When you run out, visit a rhyming site for more words and keep going!
Visit Rhyme Zone for more words!

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Audio 2

Syllables

Here are some 2 and 3 Syllable Word generators. Use these suggestions to work your improv muscles while rhyming to multi-syllable words. Get a Suggestion and then...

  • Play More Like...
  • Boom Bap Games
  • Use as a suggestion generator.
  • Think up your own!



Character and Scene Endowments

Use these to give color to your practice!
Pick one of these and a General Suggestion and monologue using the endowment.






General Suggestions

Use this suggestion to work your improv muscles. Get a Suggestion and then...

  • Establish CROW (Character, Relationship, Objective, and Where)
  • Play What You Got?
  • Find a simple action and play Try That On For Size!
  • Play What Are You Doing?
  • Get your vocal chords going by singing about the suggestion!
  • Monologue about the suggestion.
  • Think up your own!







Quick Witted Naming Exercise

While I was surfing the internet looking for ways to become quicker mentally, I found a site that said that just naming things outloud will help you become quicker.

Once you start this exercise, just keep clicking Next Image and name outloud all the things you see. If you don't know the name, just keep going. Knowing the name is not the main point.

But just naming the item is not the only thing you can do with this...

  • Get a suggestion for a Punning game.
  • Use it as a General Suggestion.