Improvising for an Audience
USF students are making people laugh and smile with the campus club, Improv or Improvidence.
Laughter fills the Jones Theatre when Improv gets together every Monday night. Jenn Krueger, USF senior and Improv Co-president, says that performing Improv is simply playing games with others and performing them.
“Anyone can do it. There’s a lot of variety in the games we play. There’s games with audience interaction, there’s games when you can’t even speak at all, there’s guessing games,” says Kreuger. “There’s a ton of variety and you get a chance to perform and be funny and make people laugh and I think that’s really cool.”
Performing a show with nothing prepared, yet filling up the house is this club’s specialty. Jessica Giannantonio, Improv co-president, says she enjoys Improv because of the great memories she’s made with many different people.
“It’s one hour of your life you just get to laugh, have fun, joke around and play games. You get to experience life in a different way then you do in your classes,” Giannatonio says.
Freshman Drew Veurink says Improv is a great addition to his week and encourages students at USF who hasn’t tried Improv, to come Monday nights.
“You don’t have to be an actor to be in Improv. People says they’re bad at Improv; I don’t really think that’s possible. All you have to do is have an imagination and be creative,” Veurink says.
Since Improv is unpredictable, things can never go as planned unlike a rehearsed play. Mikaila Miller, a freshman, says that every rehearsal is like a performance, but without an audience.
“Sometimes those great moments that happen aren’t during the show, they’re during rehearsal when we’re here meeting every Monday. Those are the best times,” Miller says.
The next show is Friday April 7th at 7:00pm in the Jones Black Box Theatre, but there will also be a final show toward the end of the semester to brighten up finals week.
If you would like to be apart of Improv, Improv meets Monday’s at 9:30 in the Jones. Like the USF Improvidence Facebook page or contact Jenn Kruger for more information.
Story by Ellie Herman
