Summary Phelim McDermott is a prolific, award-winning performer-director and an Artistic Director of the ingenious Improbable theatre company (UK). All of Phelim's theatre-making has been profoundly influenced by Keith Johnstone's teaching and methodology. In this interview, Phelim talks about Life Game, the format Keith created that has remained an important part of Improbable's repertoire since 1998. He talks about how impro helped create the text of Shockheaded Peter (1998), the Olivier Award-winning junk opera that Phelim directed and helped conceive. Finally, for over a decade, Phelim has been directing the operas of Philip Glass (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Perfect American) for the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, English National Opera, and elsewhere.

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