Improv & performance

Improvisational theatre is an ongoing practice for me, a way of learning through presence, collaboration, and uncertainty. I came to it through curiosity rather than performance ambition, and I stay with it because of what it teaches me about attention, systems in motion, and working with what’s already in the room.

Improv for me is a site of inquiry as much as expression. I’m interested in:

  • listening as an active, collective act
  • how structure enables freedom
  • failure as information, not error
  • emergence over control
  • shared responsibility for momentum and care

These show up differently every time – in rehearsals, workshops, performances, and the spaces between them.

I’m increasingly interested in how improv intersects with other parts of my work and life and thinking, particularly around systems, care, facilitation, and collaborative sense-making. I’m paying attention to the overlap.