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I’ve often found myself wishing I could do more improv than I have time for, looking for ways to practice improv alone in between classes and rehearsals. Sometimes you can’t meet with others in person, or you just want to sharpen your skills while you’re driving to work or loading the dishwasher. So, I’ve compiled some of my absolute favorite solo improv exercises.
Wondering how to practice improv alone? These solo improv exercises will help you practice character development, association, rhyming, and more:
You can do improv exercises alone, and this can be a great way to use downtime to sharpen your character development skills and practice thinking on your feet. I’ve broken the list below into improv exercises that focus on character, exercises for rhyming/musical improv, and solo exercises for performance. (Yes, you can do a solo improv performance!)
Here are three character-centric improv exercises for one person. These exercises are great for moving beyond your go-to stock characters—all while improvising alone!
In this simple exercise, throw a ball at a wall or other hard surface. Every time you catch the ball, pause to give a brief monologue in-character. Toss the ball at the wall again, and when you catch it, change your character. Keep doing this past the point that you start to run out of character ideas, and speed up as you go for an added challenge!
This is an intense character monologue exercise. Set a timer for 15 seconds and start a monologue as a character. When the timer goes off, switch to a different character. Repeat until you’ve been switching characters for several minutes.