Theresa Robbins Dudeck, PhD

THERESA ROBBINS DUDECK, PhD, facilitates improvisation, applied improvisation, and other theatre/applied theatre classes and experiences all over the world in both academic and professional settings. She is a recent Fulbright Scholar, which took her to Brazil to teach and direct, and considered one of the foremost teachers of Keith Johnstone's Impro System of training. Theresa wrote the critically acclaimed "Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography" (Bloomsbury 2013) and is co-editor of two books on applied improvisation for Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama: "Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre" (2018) and "The Applied Improvisation Mindset: Tools for Transforming Organizations and Communities" (2021). Theresa is an applied improvisation facilitator who designs and leads workshops and training sessions in leadership, team building, presentation and communication, change management, co-constructed learning, etc., across disciplines within academia and for corporations and organizations. She is also the co-founder of one of the only international symposiums focused on theatrical improvisation, the Global Improvisation Initiative (GII) (https://www.globalimprovisation.com/) and co-director/executive producer of the YouTube docuseries "On Keith: Artists Speaks on Johnstone & Impro" (https://www.onkeith.com/). Theresa worked as a professional Los Angeles-based actor/singer/dancer before discovering her passion as a theatre scholar-practitioner-educator. As a theatre director, over the last two decades, Theresa has directed twenty-seven productions, several of which were new plays in development. Theresa earned her PhD in Theatre from University of Oregon and is a member of Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actors’ Guild. For more information on Theresa, please visit: https://www.theimprofessor.com/