ChatGPT does Improv – The Love Doctors
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by the company OpenAI. Built on the text of the web and large language models, ChatGPT can hold knowledgable conversions based on the information it has been provided. Whether that knowledge is accurate is debatable. This blog post...
Mindfulness and Improvisation
We keep an eye out for improvisation research, and once in a while the mainstream media does too. The day after our last newsletter went out in June, the ABC — the Australian one, not the U.S. one — published an interesting article on the history of sports psychology,...Sydney Theatresports: Something Improvised This Way Comes
We here at Academy of Improvisation were lucky this past weekend to see Sydney Theatresports as the hero, with Theatresports All-Stars at the Enmore Theatre. This was a celebration of Sydney Theatresports from the 80s, 90s and 00s, featuring a selection of...
Don’t ask questions, myths and legends
That old chestnut of questions in theatrical improvisation scenes has popped up a number of times over the years, and seems to be doing the rounds of our local community yet again. Like many theatrical improvisation techniques, it’s either taught wrong in early levels...