CIC PANEL & EVENT SCHEDULE

Team composition is critical to your group's success, but no one solution is perfect for every group. Join our speakers and moderator for a lively conversation on general audition formats, timing, callbacks & casting. 

Some improv teams have 6 members, some have 30. Others teach improv to the broader student body, while others practice 3 times a week. This panel will leave no stone unturned while searching for the whys & wherefores.

Students who love improv often also love sketch (not to mention stand up, storytelling, satire publications, etc...). How should improv teams find balance between these interests and can they be used to build momentum in the pursuit of improv excellence?

Teaching improv to your student peers can be a challenging endeavor. Exercises, tactical approaches and reasonable goals will serve as the underscore of a lively give and take from students on the front line of improv education.

Why do we do improv anyway? Well, the show is the thing, isn't it? Sit back and get ready to smile as some of college improv's most prolific improvisers share their favorite formats, most hilarious fiascos and proudest triumphs!

What happens to all the improvisers who were seniors last year? Do they just disappear? Are they banished to a dull, grey purgatory of ash in which nothing is funny and no one ever asks you for a suggestion, much less gives you one? Find out!

If an improv show happens in the middle of the woods with no one around, can you hear the laughter and applause? Best not to find out. Instead find out tips and tricks from the best in the game of marketing improv comedy to college students!

Sometimes a long form set is over too soon, and sometimes a short form set drags on and on? So are they the same thing? Passionate practitioners of both discuss!

There are good rehearsals and there are bad rehearsals. What determines what sort of rehearsal you're about to have? Best practices, favorite exercises, effective warm ups, ideal rehearsal rooms and more will be investigated!

Reversals of fortune can show up quickly when large groups of seniors graduate leaving a scant few behind. A review of casting policies and institutional safeguards that can be used to eliminate the need to start over from zero each and every year.