I'm teaching an improv class to a group of middle school kids at a summer day camp for the next six weeks or so. I confess I'm a little out of practice, and I wanted to brush up on my improv games. So I went online to see if I could find out what kinds of resources were available on the net. I don't know why this should surprise me, but there was more information published about improv than I really knew what to do with. In fact, there seems to be a veritable cult of improv that's thriving out there as a subset of the general theatre-making population.

Among the best of these resources was the Improv Encyclopedia. It looks like they just completed a major overhaul of their website a couple weeks ago, and their hard work has really paid off. There's a downloadable pdf version you can print out (100+ pages!), a link into the Improv Top 50 webring, and much more. So check it out and maybe you too will find yourself mysteriously drawn into the cult of improv like a moth to flame...