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By Sopan Deb, New York Times (March 18, 2020)
When everything shut down due to COVID-19 in March 2020, the Magnet Theater kept going with online improv shows, streamed over Twitch. New York Times culture writer, Sopan Deb reached out to the cast of the Armando Diaz Experience after the first virtual performance.
By Jude Treder-Wolff, Medium (June 1, 2021)
Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, CGP, MT and Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation writes about the ways in which improv helps teens shape their sense of self. Improv teacher, Elana Fishbein, and teen improv student, Greer Gerney, discuss the impact of improvising with others from a young age.
By Jude Treder-Wolff, Medium (April 14, 2019)
An exploration of the ways in which mutual accountability and respect can ensure a safer space for learning and creativity. In this article, Jude-Treder-Wolff, LCSW draws connections between the practice of improvisation and cultivating social-emotional growth.
Improv is ephemeral. It’s fast, fleeting, and enormously vulnerable. In order to “get it” you simply have to be there. This documentary centers on the teachers, students and performers at the Magnet Theater in NYC.
You Had to be There | Improv Comedy: A Vanishing Act | Directed by Justin Zaun (2020)
Improvisation as a Growth Mindset with Elana Fishbein. This conversation, hosted by Kamran Afary, Professor of Communications at Cal State LA, took place as part of a course titled Performance and Social Change, in partnership with the Lancaster Prison Program.
Performance and Social Change, Week 4: Improvisation as a Growth Mindset | Hosted by Kamran Afary (2020)
The documentary short, LMAO, follows a group of standup and improv comedians who teach “comedy as therapy” to teens at an after-school program, Harlem RBI. As we get to know the students and their mentors, it is quickly apparent that not only does comedy belong in everyday life, it is a necessity to get by.
LMAO | Directed by Philip Knowlton (2015)