Yes But Why Podcast

This week, Yes But Why Podcast talks to improviser and community psychologist, Ronald Harvey. Ronald Harvey is a professor of Psychology at the American University in Bulgaria. He is also the faculty co-sponsor for the student improv troupe, the 1st English language improv club in the Balkans. This is the 3rd conversation that Ronald and I have had about improv. Unfortunately, technology has twice lost the recordings. Thankfully, Ronald is a kind and understanding man who rescheduled with me and had 3 different conversations with me. We talk about his improv journey and how he has used it in his career as a psychologist. In this conversation, we discuss that Ronald’s love of improv started in the 1990s at the iO theater in Chicago, where he saw the very first Armando Diaz Experience (WHOA). He also mentions that he uses the “Failure Bow” exercise with his improv students and that he learned it at The Hideout Theater in Austin when he came one summer for their intensive. Ronald grew up in America and he is cu