Workshops
Really Really Active Listening
Almost every strong choice on stage can be traced back to listening–listening to your partner, and listening to the choices you’ve made in the scene. What separates great improvisers is their ability to take every small moment, look, gesture, word choice, tone, pause, movement and use it to intuit even more of their scene partner’s headspace. Not just what could be true, but rather what do I think my partner thinks is true? The more of each moment we capture in our awareness, the more powerful our scene work will get.
Rick Andrews is a teacher and performer at The Magnet Theater, and has been studying, performing, and teaching improvisation since 1999. He began improvising with Improv Boston, and continued with a stint in Saint Louis, MO. He is an adjunct at Columbia University, teaching in the MFA acting program, and has taught at festivals and companies around the globe. At Magnet, you can see him in The Armando Diaz Experience and Kornfeld and Andrews.