Episode 1: Paul Vaillancourt

The Improv Teachers

Paul Vaillancourt joins us as our first guest! We discuss being a teacher in the world of improv! Paul is the co-founder (with Charna Halpern) of the iO West and has been teaching and performing improv for close to 30 years. In that time he has appeared all over the country including such notable venues as HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Chicago’s iO (where he studied with the immortal Del Close), New York’s UCB Theater, and Austin's Out of Bounds Festival to name a few. Paul has also had success as a writer and producer, co-creating and serving as supervising writer for the MTV hit “The Blame Game” as well as lending his writing and producing talents to a score of other shows for MTV, VH1, USA, Oxygen, Bravo and AMC. He published his first book about improv called “The Triangle of the Scene” (available on iBooks and Amazon Kindle) and, for the past year and a half, has been producing a weekly series of videos called “Improv Tips” available on his YouTube channel PVImprov. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pvimprov Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatsUpWithPV (@whatsupwithpv) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsupwithpv/ (@whatsupwithpv) YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/pvimprov