improv actor
Unscripted stage performer
An improv actor performs unscripted comedy or drama, creating scenes spontaneously based on audience suggestions or prompts.
The craft relies on quick thinking, collaboration, and the principle of "yes, and"—accepting what scene partners offer and building on it: She started as an improv actor at Second City before moving to television.
- comedianProfessional humor performer
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- witClever, inventive humor
- sceneDramatic unit or locale
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- comedianscomedian, stand-up, comic, stand-up comic, standup comic
- performersdancer, singer, musician, comedian, magician
- theater jobsdirector, playwright, choreographer, stage manager, costume designer
- Roleplayerslarper, reenactor, game master, dungeon master, GM
improv actorShakespearean actor
Performer of Elizabethan drama
newsreader · audiobook narrator · film actor · dramatic actor · stage actor
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