How Improv Taught Me To Be A Better Person

Flannery Wilson
4 min readFeb 3, 2019
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I decided to take my first improv class about three years ago. When I began, I thought it was fun, but I made the same mistake so many other first-timers make: I thought it should be about me.

I believed that every scene I was in was a vehicle to showcase my own cleverness. Whenever my scene partner was talking, I was panicking within my own brain, trying desperately to think of what to say…

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Flannery Wilson

Flannery has a PhD in Comparative Literature. She teaches French, Italian, and visual media. Her book on Taiwanese cinema can be found on Amazon.