Keith Johnstone defined a widely used set of improvisational principles and techniques for the theater. Alongside his formal education, and then throughout his life, Johnstone pursued his own self-directed learning, and he taught in a variety of contexts – all of which informed the emerging ideas of improvisation. This case looks at how those ideas slowly took form through the work itself – Johnstone’s network of enterprise – focusing on the social interactions over time. From those interactions, both Johnstone’s purpose and the improvisation techniques themselves emerged. This locally distributed work was part of larger post-war economic and cultural dynamics, as well as changes within the domain of theater in Europe and America. In addition to exploring the distributed dynamics of the work, the case describes key improvisational principles that will be helpful in examining later cases in this book, especially spontaneity, status and narrative skills. Full case analysis presented in Creativity and Improvised Educations: Case Studies for Understanding Impact and Implications.