Dec 30, 2021
Paul joins Jen and David on a bridge to talk about his tenure in improv, moving west, and his absolute pure joy and love for the craft.
Paul Vaillancourt is the co-founder of the iO West and the
Revolution Theater and has been teaching and performing improv for
close to 30 years.
As a teacher, he has worked with a wide variety of audiences from
high school students looking to augment their suicide, depression
and substance abuse peer out reach to corporations looking to free
up creativity, improve communication and strengthen their teams to
actors and actress on a professional performer track.
As a performer, 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, producing and consulting talents to a
score of other shows for MTV, VH1, USA, Oxygen, Bravo, AMC and MGM.
He published a book about improv called “The Triangle of the Scene”
(available on Amazon) and produces a weekly series of videos called
“Improv Tips” available on his YouTube channel PVImprov.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/pvim
“Triangle of the Scene” on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xDMrMh