Description: Armando, La Ronde, Harold and more! This class begins with an exploration of traditional improv forms. Then, the ensemble will create a completely original form of their own! Use everything you've learned up to now and take your improv to the next level. Prerequisite: Improv 301 or the equivalent.

Times/Days: Tuesdays 6:00-8:00 PM (11/10/26-1/12/27) - No class 11/24 or 12/29

Class Length: 8 weeks; 2 hrs. per week

Location: Fine Arts Building - Annex Studios (410 S. Michigan Ave. - 3rd Floor)

Teacher: Cassidy Russell*

Student Showcase: Wednesday, January 13th (7:00 PM)

*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.