For anyone that doesn’t know I’m the Education Director of the Philly Improv Theater (PHIT). I’m in charge of the Training Center… the curriculum, the instructors and how everything involved works together. Judy Weightman is a recent graduate from our Improv 101. She was under the watchful guidance of Corin Wells from the start. She took a free workshop with Corin and enjoyed it enough to jump into a whole level. Judy enjoyed the class so much she jotted those thoughts down into an article for the Broad Street Review. I particularly enjoyed this part:
So improv is playful, supportive, and egalitarian. It’s also collaborative. An improv set is the mutual creation of a group of people who all add their own touches to a piece that none could come up with individually. Improv thus involves a kind of teamwork utterly unlike anything else I experience in the rest of my life. In a business environment, even when there’s genuine camaraderie and mutual support on a working team, there’s also a division of tasks, to say nothing of a hierarchy. Not in improv — there’s no leader, no boss, no director. All responsibility for creating and shaping the performance is shared.
This was Corin’s first full length level to teach on her own, but by the sound of Judy’s experience she handled herself pret-ty well. It’s reading things like this and hearing stories from students and instructors that don’t find their way to print that make me so proud of our instructors, our theater and improv in general. Thank you, Judy for your kind words about all three.
To read the full article on Broad Street Review click here.
If this article sparked your interest in a class, click here to go to PHIT’s class enrollment page.
