Keith Johnstone

Thinkers1933 to 2023Theater educator

Works

  • Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, 1979

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Known for

An English theater teacher and director, later based in Calgary, whose Impro shaped modern improvisation. It teaches status work, in which every interaction plays out as small raises and lowerings of status, and accepting an offer instead of blocking it; he also created Theatresports.

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