Improv Archive

Current and former students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will be featured in the 20th annual Chicago Improv Festival,  running March 27-April 2 at multiple venues in Chicago. Cat Booty, an improv group consisting of current and...
  Columbia College Chicago alum Kelsie Huff ’03 is the co-star and co-creator of The Open Mic, a new web series about the world of standup comedy open mics in Chicago. The series can be found on YouTube, where new episodes...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Shira Wilson ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in Shamilton!, a new improvised musical comedy presented by the producers of Baby Wants Candy. Directed by Columbia College Theatre...
  Actor-playwright James Sherman, a Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member who teaches playwriting and improvisation, brings his one-man play The Ben Hecht Show to the Piven Theatre in the northern Chicago suburb of Evanston starting June 10....
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, located at 72 E. 11th Street in Chicago’s South Loop, will host a day of free performances on Friday, May 13, as part of Columbia College Chicago‘s 16th annual Manifest Urban Arts Festival....
Congratulations to film and TV writer-producer Dino Stamatopoulos, an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago‘s film program. The 2015 film Anomalisa, which he co-produced, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. While attending Columbia College in 1983-86,...