In acting school and then Vancouver Theatresports (in 1980). Reading Keith Johnstone’s book ‘Impro’ was also an important part of that discovery.

For me practice comes in two forms. Workshop is like the laboratory, where you work to look at new ideas, forms and structures and then those new theories and forms must be put into practice by performing them in front of an audience. If something doesn’t work then take it back to the lab and work on it, take it apart, find out why, then take it back on stage again.

From doing, from being as brave as possible and from working with people who love the work.

Strive for fun. Find the hidden game in every scene that allows you and the other people you are playing with to have a good time. Lose your ego, impro is dialogue not debate. Build something beautiful together. The best scenes always come from telepathic teamwork rather than individual brilliance.

“An improviser is like a man walking backwards, he doesn’t know where he is going but can always see where he has been” – Keith Johnstone

This is very hard. There has been so many over the years. There is kind of two that stick in my mind both musical moments as it happens. One was many years ago with the Impro Musical company at BAC where I was pimped into improvising a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song at VERY high speed. The other was about a year ago with Grand Theft in London where we called on to improvise an acappella Beatles song. It was particularly satisfying because it really did sound like a lost song from Sergeant Pepper. Really sophisticated and full. Magic moment.