Process: An Improviser\'s Journey is an invaluable resource for mastering improv.
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Gellman is the head of The Second City New York program.
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She is currently the head of writing and education programs at The Second City Training Center in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and son.
About the Author: Mary Scruggs is an actress, director, playwright, and educator.
The class culminates with their final project: a completely improvised one-act play performed in front of a live audience.
He and his classmates arrive unprepared for the challenge, but with Gellman\'s prompts and advice, they slowly move through process to performance over the course of three seasons in Chicago.
Through Geoff\'s eyes, the book introduces readers to key tenets of improvisation: concentration, visualization, focus, object work, being in the moment, and the crucial "yes, and." His experiences with the basics of improvisation do serve to get him a few roles, but his real breakthrough comes when he signs up for an improvised one-act class with Michael Gellman.
At first, Geoff thinks improvisation is about laughs and loosening up, but he soon learns that it is a powerful tool as well as an end in itself.
He undergoes the standard trials of audition and rejection before he takes the advice of a fellow actor and turns to improv classes at Second City.
Scruggs and Gellman introduce readers to Geoff, who has just moved to Chicago to pursue acting.
Scruggs and Gellman\'s book, modeled after Stanislavski\'s timeless An Actor Prepares, follows a fictional young actor taking Gellman\'s real-life class.
Author, teacher, and improviser Michael Gellman was given a mission by famed improv coach Del Close: " T]o create improvised one-act plays of literary quality from scratch." Already steeped in the world of improvisation, he took it upon himself to do this, in the form of a class for other improvisers in which they would build the skills necessary to execute such a seemingly tall order.
Process: An Improviser\'s Journey is an invaluable resource for mastering improv
