Improvisation, Inc. Revised Edition 2017

Robert Lowe is a retired Improvisation elder. He was the founder and chief executive of Improvisation Incorporated, a pioneering educational consulting firm specializing in the use of Improvisation Theater techniques for organizational development, and for business, professional, and interpersonal communication. In his thirty-six-year exploration of Improvisation, Lowe has been an observer, a dancer, a player, a teacher, a director, and a mentor in the uses of Improvisation for purposes beyond performance. In Atlanta, Georgia he is known as "The Godfather" of Improvisation, having founded and directed the first Improv Comedy Theatre Troupe in Georgia - The Lightside City Players - and The Next City Comedy Theatre, the first Improvisational Comedy Theatre in the Southeastern U.S. More than anything else, Robert Lowe is a man who one day nearly 40 years ago found the power of focus on the current instant, and has been unwilling, and unable to let go of its pursuit for even a moment since. When he talks about Improvisation, and about creativity, and about the human spirit, and about the power of spontaneity, and the salvation of human collaboration, his eyes light up, the air crackles, and his feet only barely touch the ground. He truly sees the explosive development of Improvisational Thinking as the next, and most vital, step in the evolution of human culture.