The Standup Trainer: Techniques from the Theater and the Comedy Club to Help Your Students Laugh Stay Awake and Learn Something Useful

Like a stage actor or standup comic trainers perform on stage before a live audience. Your presentation must seem spontaneous--even though youve delivered it 100 times. And you must deal with audience feedback and reviews by critics. Author Ellen Dowling has been knocking em dead in the classroom and on stage for over 30 years as a trainer professor comic folk-singer and actor. She shares the secrets of the stage in this witty and enlightening look at how to apply theatrics to training in order to liven up learning. In life you can be boring a noted acting teacher observed. On stage you cannot afford to be boring not even for an instant. This book will show you how NOT to be boring in the classroom.