Improvisational Actor/Actress

7-8 th Grade Core Career Connections
Enter/Exit – 5 player
The players are brought out to the front of the stage and the audience assigns one a color, one a number,
one an animal, one a shape and one a food. One person starts the scene on stage and as the players hear
their word they either enter or exit depending on where they are. The scene ends when they are all
eventually off the stage.
Expert Slides – 4 player
Two players are the hosts of a talk show. They are experts on some kind of animal picked by the
audience. The other two players are the slides. As the hosts click on a slide the two “Slide” people form
a ridiculous pose and the hosts have to comment on it like they were looking at slides of the animal they
are experts on. You can add things like “This is a video” or “Hey this one is in upside down!”.
Faces – 4 player
The players are brought on stage and the audience gives each of them an emotion such as happy or
shocked and the player must make a face to go along with that emotion and hold it for the remainder of
the skit. The MC chooses an every day event and the scene goes from there with everyone keeping their
frozen faces and playing out the scene.
Occupations – 2 player
This game is similar to emotions but instead of the MC calling out different emotions he calls out
different occupations. When the players hear the next occupation they freeze in whatever pose they were
in for the previous one and must start the next occupation from there, the humor coming from them
having to explain their way out of that certain pose.
Pieces of Paper – 2 player
Several pieces of paper are spread out on the ground before the 2 players. These pieces of paper have
little sayings on them. They could be pre written or you could send the players out and have the audience
come up with the sayings on the spot. The players are put into a scene and must each in turn read one of
the papers as a line in their scene. The game is over when all of the papers have been read.
Missing Shakespeare – 2 to 3 player
The players are given an every day occurrence to play out like a trip to 7-11 or a camping trip and the
players must play out a scene using Shakespearean dialogue and phrasing.
Stand Up, Sit Down, Bend Over – 3 player
The players are given a scene and someone must be standing, someone must be sitting and someone must
be bent over at all times. They play out the scene and move all around, every one changing their positions
every once in a while.
I hope these games will get you started and if you need any more ideas or instruction, please come on
down and see us in person!!
Melissa Porter
Off Broadway Theatre
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