Improv was created by Viola Spolin when working with Neva Boyd at a Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.

Improv was created on the realization that adults do not play games.

" Improv Comedy " was born.

Also Altsys Virtuoso, version 2 of which was ported to Mac OS and Windows to become Macromedia FreeHand version 4, the modern " Notebook " interface for Mathematica, and the advanced spreadsheet Lotus Improv.

Lotus Improv was a spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3. 1 in 1993.

Improv found a strong following in certain niche markets, notably financial modeling, although it was not a commercial success in comparison to mainstream products like Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel.

Improv for NeXT was released in February 1991, resulting in " truckloads " of flowers from Jobs.

Lotus Improv for Windows v2. 0 ( there was no 1. 0 ) shipped in May 1993, running on Windows 3. 1.

Quantrix almost suffered the same fate as Improv when the company was purchased by Sun Microsystems and ( eventually ) turned into a developer of Java applications.

The core of what would become Improv was to separate the concepts of data, views of the data, and formulas into three portions.

was released September 9, 2008 and contains material recorded at The Improv in Ontario, California in January 2005.

He was a frequent featured performer on An Evening at the Improv and Caroline's Comedy Hour.

It was during this time that Patrick was studying how the game of " Improv " worked.

The LA Improv was the original site for the A & E Network television series An Evening at the Improv, which ran from 1982 until 1996, and was produced by Larry O ' Daly, Created by Larry O ' Daly and Barbara Hosie-O ' Daly, with Budd Friedman as a warm-up host.

The Improv was the place to see Richard Pryor, Robert Klein, Steve Landesberg, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Jay Leno, and others when they were just starting out.

Comedian Eddie Murphy was a regular at The Comic Strip in New York City, but in California performed at the Improv when he was only 15 years old, Jeremy Ruder at 18, and Jim Carrey at 19.

The film was shown at several national improv festivals, including the 2004 Chicago Improv Festival, the 2004 Phoenix Improv Festival, the 2002 Del Close Marathon in New York City, and the 2006 LA Improv Festival.

Improv groups frequently solicit suggestions from the audience as a source of inspiration, a way of getting the audience involved, and as a means of proving that the performance is not scripted.

Other commercial programs were released for NeXT computers, including the Lotus Improv spreadsheet program and Mathematica.

* Javelin, a multi-dimensional spreadsheet / modeling program which may have influenced the design of Improv

* Lotus Improv, a spreadsheet program

This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager ( PIM ), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package ( and spreadsheet ) for the NeXT platform.

Lighthouse went on to develop and acquire more software products, and marketed an office suite for NeXTSTEP, which included ParaSheet ( a traditional spreadsheet ), Quantrix ( a spreadsheet program based on Lotus Improv ), Diagram !, TaskMaster ( a project management program ), WetPaint ( an image editing / retouching program ) and Concurrence ( a presentation program ).

Quantrix is a spreadsheet program modeled after the pioneering Lotus Improv, and introduced by Lighthouse Design for NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP in the early ' 90s when Lotus stopped selling Improv.

Although Improv disappeared in the 1990s, the program is fondly recalled in the industry and continues to be mentioned in books on Excel.

Other options for participation in the Theater program include the Shenanigans Improv Comedy Group, student directed one act plays, pageant wagon, and participation in the SVU Film Festival.

While working on a concept for a new program which would eventually become Lotus Improv, Salas realized that spreadsheets have patterns of data.

The Port Perry High School Drama program has fielded several successful Improv teams over the past decade, and sponsors an annual Drama production in the Spring each year.

From the 1990s onwards a growing number of European Improv groups have been set up specifically to explore the possibilities offered by the use of the abstract in improvised performance, including dance, movement, sound, music, mask work, lighting, and so on.

But the real power of Improv did not become clear until work had already started on the project.

The programming tracks involve discussions and work groups focused on the application of furry in Art, Comedy and Improv, Computer Gaming, Costuming ( Fursuits ), Music, Puppetry, Role-Playing ( both gaming and real-life ), and Writing.

Fullman has presented numerous lectures on her work including: the Songlines series, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College ; and Improv: 21 a lecture series presented by Rova: Arts, San Francisco.

Viola Spolin eventually handed both the children's show and the improv classes over to Forsberg, who continued teaching Spolin's work at the Second City from the mid-1960s on, leading to the creation of Forsberg's own improv school, Players Workshop in 1971, as well as the Improv Olympic and the Second City Training Center in the 1980s, all of which were based on Spolin's work.

Improv Everywhere has stated that they do not identify their work with the term flash mob, in part because their site was created two years prior to the flash mob trend.

* The Gainesville Improv Festival, provides a venue for new talent.

While taking acting classes during off-times and burning the midnight oil in the pursuit of a new career as a novelist, Wirtz also realized a lifelong ambition to be a comedian by studying and performing at Hollywood's Groundlings Improv Theater, to eventually take his first steps onto the stages of Hollywood's comedy clubs, including The Comedy Store and The Improv.

In 1993, at the time when the Windows version of Improv appeared, Microsoft Excel 5 was already on the market with a new functionality called a “ PivotTable ”.

Whereas conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas and notes, Improv separated these concepts apart and used the cells only for input and output data.

" Improv " techniques are often taught in standard acting classes.

Spolin can probably be considered the American Grandmother of Improv.

She influenced the first generation of Improv at The Compass Players in Chicago, which led to The Second City.

When The Committee disbanded in 1972, Three major companies were formed: The Pitchell Players, The Wing, and Improvisation Inc, Improv, Inc. being the only company continuing to perform Del ’ s “ Original ” Harold.

" Madson explores the application of thirteen " maxims of improvisational theater " to real-life in the book Improv Wisdom: Don ’ t Prepare, Just Show Up.

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

Improv companies may have at their disposal some number of readily accessible props that can be called upon at a moment's notice, but many improvisers eschew props in favor of the infinite possibilities available through mime.

There are also many independent Improv groups around the world ; a non-exhaustive but lengthy list is available here.

The Improv Olympics were first demonstrated at Toronto's Homemade Theatre in 1976 and have been continued on as the Canadian Improv Games.

In the United States, the Improv Olympics were later produced by Charna Halpern under the name " ImprovOlympic " and now as " IO "; IO operates training centers and theaters in Chicago and Los Angeles.

" Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up " New York: Bell Tower.

Lotus introduced what is likely the most successful example, Lotus Improv, which saw some commercial success, notably in the financial world where its powerful data mining capabilities remain well respected to this day.

Themes may include Nerd, Erotica, Queer, Improv, or other conceptual limitations.

Embedded VLIW products are available from several vendors, including the FR-V from Fujitsu, the BSP15 / 16 from Pixelworks, the ST231 from STMicroelectronics, the TriMedia from NXP, the CEVA-X DSP from CEVA, the Jazz DSP from Improv Systems, and Silicon Hive.