Process: An Improviser's Journey Book

I want to be a Life Artist.

Scruggs and Gellman have written one of the guides for me to be a Life Artist. Here's why I love this book: a) the narrative device of using "Geoff" works incredibly well in relating the storytelling process that improvisers must find in each moment. The manual of information inside never becomes preachy or didactic but rather sparkles with luminosity; b) the spirituality inside provides some keys for genuine improvisation that plumb to the core of what the experience in everyday living can be--on and off the stage--follow the follower, stay in the moment, focus on your partner and react, make discoveries as well as find the clues for acting in the environment, in a focus, and in the scene characters; and finally, Gellman moves through multiple improv exercises to move the performers to the point of creating an improvised, 30-minute one act play before a live audience.

I find it inspirational, intriguing, and motivational. A friend handed it to me to read and now I have to give it back and that's OK--I want this book to be a part of my life in the same way that I want to improvise with my colleagues on stage--to be the change--to take my acting to a new level--and be the change my life.