Chicago City Limits

The school was founded by, and is still run by, improvisers who trained with Del Close at The Second City workshops in the late 1970's. Del's workshops instilled a few simple but crucial ideas in our company, ideas that still shape how we improvise:

• The best improvisation is emotionally truthful
• The best improvisers connect emotionally to the situations and characters they embody on stage
• The best improvisational training gives students the skills to create rich scenes and to play those scenes in an emotionally grounded way

The school aims to give students complete training in the school's style of emotionally truthful, narratively complex, theatrically presented improvisation. Our Improv Core and Music Improv Core Curricula are designed to build the improvisational and musical skills necessary to create dynamic, grounded scenes of the type on display in the school show.