Things You'll Need:
- Improv group
- Rehearsal/performance space
- Computer
- Possible writing partners
- Pen and paper
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Step 1
Get your improv group together and hold a rehearsal. Make sure to have pen and paper close by.
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Step 2
Write ideas down immediately as you go through scene work. You don't want to forget them.
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Step 3
Take your notes and enter them into your computer after rehearsal. This way you have a saved log of your ideas.
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Step 4
Begin fleshing out the ideas that speak to you the most. If there was a good line in the improvised scene, steal it and insert it into a skeletal script. If it was a character that you took away from an improv scene, begin fleshing out that character.
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Step 5
You can do one of two things once you've added details to your idea. The first is you can continue to flesh it out on your own. To do this, keep adding plot, characterization and jokes until you have what you feel to be a complete sketch.
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Step 6
Take your fleshed out ideas back to your improv group and have them improvise the scene again, as another option. Direct them, expanding on the details you added in writing. This should inform the sketch idea further. Continue doing this until you have enough ideas to flesh out the piece into a full-length sketch.
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Step 7
Bring the completed sketch to your improv group no matter which method you used to get to the sketch format. Have them act it out. Encourage them to improvise. This will help you think of further revisions.
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Step 8
Once you have revised the sketch to a point you're happy with, have your improv group perform it one last time. Now it's ready to be shown before an audience.
