What it is like to improvise as an Iranian expat “You seem to have a wall up. You are very hard to read. You don’t express your thoughts clearly” My name is Tanine and I’m an Iranian woman currently living and improvising in Amsterdam. The quotes above are some of the comments I would get from my stage partners. They were all news to me and made me start reflecting to find out why people around me see me in a very different way from how I see myself. We all know that one of t