32: Artist’s Brain - Kiff VandenHeuvel - Valuing Craft of Improv, Solo Practice, Training Confidence
On this Artist’s Brain episode we had the pleasure to sit down with Kiff VandenHeuvel. Kiff’s an improv and sketch comedy veteran - he’s an alumni of The Second City comedy theatre and at Second City Hollywood, he’s directed sketch comedy and taught voiceover, improv, and directing. Kiff is also consistently working as an actor, and has appeared in hundreds of TV and radio commercials, and is well known in the video game community as the voice of Zachary Hale Comstock in Bioshock: Infinite, Walter in The Walking Dead video game series, and also from his work with Disney Infinity. He’s full of passion and his love of performance, and specifically improv, are inspiring.
In our interview, we talk to Kiff about the origins of the modern improv technique as developed by Viola Spolin, we talk about owning the legitimacy of your improv craft as a legitimate performance technique in an industry which doesn’t quite understand or respect the craft of improv, establishing a solo improv practice, how important it is to build confidence as a performer, and how it was working with Al Pacino. Kiff is passionate about improv and performing and this episode will inspire you to get out there with renewed energy.
You can connect with Kiff on Instagram @kiffvh on his website kiffvh.com - where you can find his demos, reach out for independent coaching, he coaches improv, vo, sketch, and all things performance. He also produces a podcast called All Over Voiceover, which you can check out on its website allovervo.com or on all your favorite podcast platforms.
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