Now last week I went and took the negative approach to improv so this week I am turning it completely on it’s head and taking a complete 180 – love! There are so many aspects of improv to love but relating it to life there are many ways I suppose it has changed me or enhanced me as a person.

I am a very passionate person already, if I love doing something I will do it, and I will keep finding new and exciting ways to do what I love. However improv I think has heightened some areas and I think it’s because how much I love it, it comes out in different areas and ways. So while I take a random approach to this topic a lot of the subjects are relevant.

Relationships

Ok let’s start with this one as it’s probably the one you all thought you were going to read about.

I have always been quite an independent person and don’t rely on being in a relationship to have a great time in life. Of course I am like every girl, relating themselves to a modern Bridget Jones, and of course love being in a relationship but at the same time for me personally I can live and work pretty well without one.

In regards to the topic of guys I suppose in some ways I do see changes that improv has created when talking to guys I like. I tend to be less nervous of acting a fool and taking the mickey out of myself. Guys I have met naturally and ended up liking have told me before I even tell them I perform that they could tell I must because I the way I am so confident and always on the ball for a joke.

In this “glorious” modern day world we live in, most dating tends to be In an online environment – I am completely against this as I am Traditionalist and a lot of times my relationships have developed from friendships – but now and again you delve into the big bad world of online window shopping and talk to people via apps. I have experience guys not being very keen on a woman being a comedian. To be honest it doesn’t really bother me as every date I have ever had from the tin ter net had been awful – so I will stick to meeting people naturally thanks and “window shopping” when i am bored!

Script writing / short films

One thing I love doing is creating short films – it’s so fun and quite rewarding the end product. The last time i produced a short film I was proud of was in 2012 called The Promenade. After that I produced a few but my heart wasn’t really in it. Improv made me fall in love with doing the short film again.

Since co-founding Punderstandably with James Stone, all I want to do is write short films to promote us. I love doing comedy and promoting an improv troupe means that everything can be a parody and your imagination is endless.

I love creating and writing short films and being able to do this for an audience makes me very happy.

Friends

I love improv as I have made so many great friends of all ages, nationalities and professions that I probably wouldn’t of met in an every day situation. The improv community is like one big family and it makes me very happy to be a part of it.

I find it funny as well the reaction my best friends have who don’t do improv. My friend Emilia described it I think perfectly when she came and saw me perform. She was amazed at this other side i had. I am already an outgoing person and she knows this but she was surprised that even being my best friend for nearly ten years, there was still another side to me!

Music

Music is very close to my heart and has been from the age of three when I started learning keyboard. I didn’t think I could love music more and then i got introduced to musical improv.

I have only started learning it and i didn’t think it was possible but I have started to love music even more. It has always amazed me musical improv but actually by learning it, i realise just how much of a skill it is and how much fun it is to do.