There are kinds of improv? Yes there are. Although I have studied with over 40 different improv teachers and enjoy all kinds of improvisation, I teach a style of improv called TheatreSports, created by Keith Johnstone, author of Impro and Impro for Storytellers. In the fundamental classes, TheatreSports training has a focus on the psychology of optimal performance by dealing with the fear we all experience on stage and learning how to play again. In later workshops we study story structure, including Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, to learn how to create characters the audience can care about as they evolve over an improvised comedic one act play. One of our main inspirations is Carol Hazenfield’s book Acting on Impulse.