SHOWS
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
BackDoor Comedy is headed to Brooklyn for an evening of comedy, mingling, dancing!
If you love stand up, satire, and whistles then, this show is for you! Are YOU ready for this?
Please step into our sick and twisted minds and watch as we perform sketch comedy for you.
We've heard your cries for MORE IMPROV. And we are thrilled to announce the Forever Jam, a jam open to current and past BCC improv students... because we're all students of commedia starting NOW and forever. Come get your reps done in an all-levels friendly space!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Check Out follows Edson on their last day in intensive outpatient rehab as their counselor, Dr. Gomez, gets them ready for discharge and set up for future success - and doing so by any means necessary.
Fast paced, high energy, and filled to the brim with chaos, NYC’s premiere improv team Duchovny presents “Improv Night in America”! A show dedicated to the moments in our life that would be perfect for “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.
Lil Weenieprov is a Chicago show that celebrates what we believe to be the best form of improv: smallprov!
This one-ish man show breaks the fifth, sixth, and seventh walls with audience participation, psychedelic visuals and yes, even puppetry, for a fluid, form-bending performance that’s never the same twice.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh.
Opener: Tip your Landlord
Welcome to BABES! An improv show featuring students & grads of the BCC training center. Catch some of the best rising teams from the BCC. It’s time for the community to fuck around, mess around, and be a god-damn lunatics. By that, we mean do improv.
Featuring: MOSH SQUAD, The Audacity, TBA
Lil Weenieprov is a Chicago show that celebrates what we believe to be the best form of improv: smallprov!
Passive Income is a duo-sketch team born out of Second City Chicago.
A darkly funny one-woman show about grief, guilt and possibly murder. Laugh, cry, call your dad.
Proud Texan expat Adison Eyring takes skeptical New Yorkers on a rootin' tootin' tour of the place she grew up in - while attempting to sidestep the looming presence of evil tech bros and Christian fascism. What could go wrong?
Five performers with extremely varied understandings of Catholicism will improvise a conclave.
You thought you knew Gay Guy Improv, but what if we added a member? And what if that member was the first gay guy ever created, John Early?
This play-within-a-play celebrates women, food, villainous men, and the uniquely American tradition of passionately participating in a good argument.
Welcome to our weekly house improv show where a rotating cast of 6 primo indie teams do some of the most GOATED improv you've ever seen!
Featuring: Full of Bones, The Go Go Gos, The Clique
Performers get 3 minute slots to try their material out with little pops from After School Special in between. Show off standup, sketch, a character, or even a little poem you've been working on. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks, Maya Sharma, and Tej Khanna where anyone can put their name in and perform improv in a mash up group with other comedians.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Opener: Skip Skip
Known for their grounded scenes and wildly inventive play, OLESTRA brings Chicago-style joyful chaos to the stage.
Interpretive Dance Meets Cinema Comedy
local wizard and harmonic mammalian being, jooby, seeks to enchant and delight.
The Good Time is a fully improvised show based on one suggestion from the audience. The Good Time is a team made up of Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance, Logan Square Improv.
Openers: Piggly Wiggly, The Letdown
The audience takes control in this improvised show by creating an album of songs that will inspire dynamic, exciting, surprising scenes.
Come watch Conquest, War, Famine, and Death, the four horsemen of Horseshoe Theory, improvise their way through the end times.
Descend. Join the freaks of the BCC for a night of mania. All new wild-ass improvised sketches every week. Welcome to hell, it’s a party.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Come be unapologetically [insert non-white race here] and unapologetically goofy on stage with us on the 4th Friday of each month at 7pm at the BCC Pig Pen!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Are you doing anything after school?! No…? …so? come over!
Classes
Discover your voice, hone your craft, find your people.

HIRE US
Applied improv classes and customized shows.

Comedy shows to delight and improv workshops to enhance communication, innovation, leadership, and trust among your team.
TESTIMONIALS
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COMMUNITY
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RENTALS
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MERCH
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GIFT CARDS
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