Online improv meetups

We can stop doing it! We are addicted to improv, so let's do it online! To spend less time with technical problemes, Please read this page carefully before joining our online meetups.

At least 30 minutes before the meeting, install Zoom on a desktop computer. And check:

• Do you hear sounds? Are the speakers working?
• Do you hear yourself? Is the microphone working? If you have problems please watch this video Configuring audio and video with Zoom
• Can you talk without hearing any echo?
• Does your camera work? If you have problems please watch this video Configuring audio and video with Zoom
• Do you know how to mute your microphone?
• Do you know how to turn off your camera?
• Where is the chat window?
• Is your battery fully charged or your laptop is plugged in?
• Do you have water or any other beverage nearby?
• Do you have the link to join the meeting? https://zoom.us/j/6083499415

We will use the following gestures:

• Raise your hand to talk
• Thumbs ups: Everything is ok!
• Thumbs down: You didn't like it!
• Cross arms in front of your chest: Stop what you are doing!
• Police-officer-stop hand: To pause a scene/exercise
• Waving hands: Applause! (sign language style)

Other tips:

• When you aren't playing a scene, please turn off your camera
• Use your body when you are sitting down, make sure you are sitting upright. Create a focussed body position and you will feel that way!
• Allow time for lag! Stop at the end of your sentence and be delighted by what your partner says. Be prepare for more silence moments as the sound travels to the other participants

The moderator is going to generate the invitation link and post it on meetup.com as a comment 10 minutes before. Join in and check if your microphone and your camera are working.

Your improv telenovelas start here!

• 1,3, 5 words. 3 players can only say 1, 3 or five words per sentence.
• Pen friends
• Count until 21
• Yes... and in pair
• Alphabet ABC-Game
• 3 lines scenes: in pairs. Player B answers and at the end Player A must finished the scene
  • Player A stars with a sentence like “Is that not a (crappy used car saleman?)”
  • Player A says a lyrics of a famous song
  • The moderator must tell make two online rows be telling every player who they follow
• Telling a story and linking sentences: Two players say the first and last sentence of a story. Then players say a sentence and tell everyone between what other players this sentence goes. After a couple of rounds the players repeat their sentences until every participant is part of the story.

Information for moderators

1. To keep offering workshops two times a week, we need your contribution to pay for the rent of the rooms and meetup's fees.
2. To make these session even more fun and interesting, please give leave your feedback here: https://forms.gle/864sqj2DY1ptLfPz9
3. If you are interested in more online improv, you can join this whatsapp group Please use the password ricecookie

• Circle Up
• Increase and Decrease in a virtual order The moderators names the next person
• Picking gifts (close-up mimic and small objects) The moderators names the next person
• Samurai: Hi-Ha-Ho
• Award Ceremony: for strange characters with positive award with facial traits. The award giver names the next person
• One sentence at a time telling a story
  • Each participant renames himself
• Emotional replay (6 players with 6 emotions, first scene with 2 players) Long list of emotions List of emotions in German Diagram with complex emotions