Advanced Study: Narrative Improv with Hannah Piper
Take your improv knowledge to a new level of exploration with narrative improv.
In this eight week elective, you’ll learn skills specific to effectively telling improvised stories.
This class will introduce concepts including:
- Consequence tags and the roles it plays in activating the action of a scene.
- Narrator Edits that give detail and expectations to a scene.
- Story Structure and how to communicate the type of story you’re telling.
- B Plots and its importance in resting the game of the larger story
- and more!
Additionally, you’ll hone your character work through clear emotionality and physicality to create distinct characters that can be played by multiple people throughout a show.
ABOUT HANNAH
Like not very many, Hannah started improv because she wanted to get better at D&D. Since then she has been a voracious consumer of all things improv. In any given week she’s likely to be teaching a class, attending one of WIT’s advanced classes as a student, and performing or practicing with at least one of the half dozen indie teams she plays with, including a duoprov team (H8 BBs), an improvised sitcom (The Gang’s All Queer), a format of her own design (unoprov, performed by Three Idiots)
As a teacher, Hannah’s central philosophy is that everyone should do improv. She advocates for simple and clean scenes, where details aren’t forgotten and emotions are clear. The less you put on stage, the easier it is to play meaningfully with what’s there.
