Description: This class focuses on the fundamental elements of scenic improv including idea generation, finding the game, and heightening. Learn how to play with a scene partner, use the environment, and sustain the relationship. Prerequisite: Improv 101 or the equivalent.

Times/Days: Mondays 6:00-8:00 PM (9/14/26 - 11/2/26)

Class Length: 8 weeks; 2 hrs. per week

Location: Fine Arts Building - Little Studio (410 S. Michigan Ave. - 7th Floor)

Teacher: Cassidy Russell*

Student Showcase: Wednesday, November 11th (7:00 PM)

Please note, class registrations are non-transferable and non-refundable.

*Cassidy Russell is a member of the Second City National Touring Company and plays with Chicago’s longest-running improv team, Deep Schwa, and Annoyance Theatre house team, Sight Unseen. Cassidy directs plays and sketch shows and teaches improv in Chicago. In the summer, she teaches comedy classes in Alaska at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Outside of the comedy world, Cassidy writes reviews of children’s books for a literary journal, works part time as a librarian, and was once in a commercial where all four of the other actors were cats. Her teaching pedagogy revolves around hunting down delight on stage, playing with joyful abandon, and figuring out how to combine selfishness with extreme generosity.