Each class is limited to 16 students.

Good old fashioned Chicago-style improv. This intensive will focus on the principles that made Chicago the world’s home for the art form. Things like patience, grounded scene work, heightening, and callbacks, all come together to prove that improv is more than just a comedy tool, it’s art through collaboration. Gretchen and James are bringing this intensive to NYC for the first time after selling out sessions across the midwest.

Prerequisite: Completion of BCC Level 1 Improv at equivalent at any Major Comedy Theater

Drop-in Class: Sunday, April 28th, 3:00PM - 6:00 PM

Please note: This class may end at 5:30pm if it receives under 12 enrollments.

Where: The BCC Dog House, Studio #2 (137 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn)

Teachers: James Dugan and Gretchen Eng

Bio:

James Dugan took his first improv class when he was 12 years old and has been in love with it ever since. He has performed on cruise ships with The Second City, was an ensemble member of TJ and Dave’s Mission Theater and can currently be seen in Chicago with The Armando Diaz Experience, Hitch*Cocktails, Clued In, and Whirled News Tonight. He has been featured in comedy festivals in Austin, St. Louis, New York and Juneau and also co-hosted the popular improviser interview podcast, Talking Shop.

Gretchen Eng has worked in the Chicago comedy community since her salad days in the Second City Teen Ensemble. Following a brief stint studying classical voice and doing sketch comedy at Vassar College, she has been a producer and performer at iO for ten years, specifically with Devil's Daughter, The Armando Diaz Experience, and in her duo Jaymes Gretchky. She is a professor in Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts, teaches all levels of the training center at iO, coaches, and designs curricula for an array of corporate, non-profit, and educational organizations as the Director of Professional Development and Partnerships for the theater.

If this class is sold out, sign-up for the wait list here.