Improv comedian - AUthor - Journalist - Teacher - Nice Person
iMPROV COMEDIANPam Victor has been improvising professionally since 2003 when she founded The Ha-Ha's, who continue to perform at The Happier Valley Comedy Show. Pam is the softer-skinned half of the theatrical improv duo "We Made a Thing" with Scott Braidman. Pam has improvised and done her live interview show at numerous festivals, such as The Women in Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Arts Festival, Detroit Improv Festival, and Chicago Improv Festival.
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Pam is the creator of the improv structures "The Buckingham" and "Shrink: Where Freud Meets Funny" as well as the co-creator of "The Fourth Wall" and "Bubble & Squeak." Pam has received improv training from iO Theater (Chicago), Annoyance Theater (Chicago), ImprovBoston, Second City teachers and a parade of astoundingly talented teachers including Mick Napier, Susan Messing, Mark Sutton, Will Luera, Rachael Mason, Piero Procaccini and many more. She continues to learn every day from her students and the world.
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Art Maker Pam Victor | Improv comedian — the art of being funny on cue"How hard can it be to stand onstage, or in front of a microphone in a recording studio, and be spontaneously witty? Ask Pam Victor, president of Happier Valley Comedy and the only Massachusetts resident outside of Boston (to her knowledge) who makes a living as an improvisational comedian."
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AuthorPam is the co-author of "Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ & Dave Book" along with TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi. She is also the author of"Baj and the Word Launcher: Space Age Asperger Adventures in Communication," a children's chapter book that uses sci-fi to teach social skills. Pam writes the "Zen of Improv" series, a sassy (and often saucy) exploration of the place where improvisation and Zen thinking joyously meet. Pam writes mostly true, mostly humorous essays and reviews of books, movies, and tea on her blog "My Nephew is a Poodle."
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JournalistPam writes the popular interview series "Geeking Out with..." in which she gets deep, dirty, and improvluscious with a calvacade of improvisation's biggest brains and talents. In "Geeking Out with: The Live TALK SHOW," Pam sits down face to face in front of live audiences with comedy festival headliners, such as Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), Scott Adsit (30 Rock), John Lutz (30 Rock), and Laura Hall (Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
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Pam faciliating at the Applied Improv Network World Conference (Montreal, 2015) [Photo credit: Alex Tran]
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TeacherPam designed and teaches a multi-level improv curriculum called "The Zen of Improv". She teaches a variety of workshops, such as The Zen of Improv One- and Two-Day Intensives, Bitches Get Stuff Done, and The Buckingham, at improv festivals and theaters. Pam also teaches applied improvisation classes in her "Through Laughter" programs. Pam is the founder and Head of Happiness of Happier Valley Comedy, a hotbed of improv in Western Mass.
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Nice personPam tries to be loving, compassionate, and grateful 100% of the time. (She succeeds about half that.) Pam would probably like you.
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