Publisher's Synopsis
Are you ready to laugh? Are you ready to make the world laugh?HEY KIDS!Use this book to create laughs with friends. Put on a show, start a club at school or simply get together with friends online. Dozens of games and variations will keep you playing for years. Like Eggo waffles, no two shows will ever be the same!PARENTS! Give the gift of laughter. Get the whole family playing together. recommended for ages 8 & up. Great for all adult fun too!THEATER PROS! Don't let these crazy times stifle your fun and creativity. Get online and play! Start a class. Put on a show. TEACHERS! Use this book as a blue print for adding a fun section to their Language or Theater Arts classes, creating a unique elective, or building new after school programs. Bring the gift of laughter into your classroom. Studies at John Hopkins and other universities show humor in the classroom raises test scores. The laughter alone increases cardio-pulmonary activity, bringing more oxygen to the brain. Laughter reduces stress while building confidence in self and trust in others. Students become more focused and engaged.Comedy classes should be offered to every student in the world. Simply playing improv comedy teaches creative writing, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence and even empathy. Walt Frasier uses the same games to teach corporate groups team building, leadership/management, sales and customer service. His mission is to set-up kids & teens for success in life by introducing these programs. He works with thousands every year in schools, camps, community centers and his own Times Square NYC Comedy School. Get the arts back into schools better than ever with Improv. Compared to traditional theater arts programming, students are performing on day one. There is nothing to memorize. There is no overhead for script royalties, props, sets or costumes. Every one is featured.. No one is relegated to secondary characters, ensemble or tech. Improv can be performed easily online and with social distancing. It's even more without the current restrictions. IMPROV on ZOOM is the culmination of Walt Frasier and the cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH (AKA LMAO Off Broadway, Improv 4 Kids) performing over 100 shows on ZOOM while logging 1000s of hours teaching kids, teens and adults in just the past six months. New York based since 1997, Walt Frasier has appeared on TV (Billions, Blue Bloods, Royal Pains, Lilyhammer, Friends of the People, Letterman, WE, NICK, MTV2), commercials (Dr. Oz's Fat Pants was also featured as bits on Letterman, Kimmel and Pierce Morgan), Indy films and seen internationally performing live comedy, theater, and singing. Since 2002, Walt has served Artistic Director of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH (AKA LMAO Off Broadway and Improv 4 Kids). If you have called or emailed to book private events, Walt provided the answers, contracts, and invoices. In addition to work with organizations such as the Comedy Hall of Fame (Former Director of Instruct, creating the first iteration of their Laugh It Off program) and Arts Horizon, Walt is as a NYC DOE vendor (fieldtrips, school assemblies, residencies, after school programming), Government contractor (Workshops for military children) and working with numerous summer camps, libraries and community centers. Walt hosted college campus shows (Princeton, Williams, Georgetown, High Point, NYU, Hofstra, Columbia, etc.), managed corporate entertainment (Morgan Stanley, Master Card, Home Depot, Edy's Grande, GM, Kraft, etc.), coordinated marketing stunts (HBO, Ben & Jerry's, Mentos, Master Card, AMEX, McDonald's, etc) and led team building programs (JP Morgan Stanley, BING, Ernst & Young, Twitter, HSBC, Coach, Louis Vuitton, Johnson & Johnson, etc.)
