Spend part of your winter break at The Second City where you can work out your creative juices in our intensives. Learn new skills, meet new friends and enjoy hanging out in the training center during the holiday season. Students are grouped by age and intensives are held at The Second City Training Center, 1608 N. Wells St., 4th floor. Class size is limited so don’t miss out!
Each winter intensive is a three day session, with classes held Monday through Wednesday. You can register for Dec. 21-23 and/or Dec. 28-30. All participating students will be invited to perform at our January meet & greet on the afternoon of 1/3/10. Click here for more details.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Ranjit Souri interviews Second City Training Center graduate Danny Pudi from Community
Chicago Training Center’s Ranjit Souri interviews SCTC Chicago alumnus Danny Pudi, one of the stars of the new hit NBC show "Community" with Chevy Chase and Joel McHale. Ranjit conducted the interview with Danny for India Currents magazine. Among the topics are his days at The Second City Training Center and in the Chicago improvisation scene, and his association with the Farley Scholarship program. Visit indiacurrents.com for more.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Final Hours to Bid on 50th Alumni Show Performance/James Hotel Weekend Package!
The charity auction for 2 tickets to the 50th Anniversary Alumni Show (Sat, Dec 12th, 7pm) and 2 nights in a penthouse suite at the James Hotel ends at noon today. Make sure to visit http://jameshotels.com/Special.aspx?name=Second-City-Anniversary-VIP to bid on this once in a lifetime event and to support the Alumni Fund of The Second City as well.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Amazing 50th Anniversary coverage in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune has done an incredible job looking at the past and future of The Second City. Through articles, interviews, photo timelines, and more, the Tribune tackles every angle of The Second City – from how The Second City feeds SNL/Hollywood to how we’ve helped shape the Chicago comedy scene. Take a look at all the coverage online at chicagotribune.com.
Musical Director Ruby Streak featured in the Chicago Sun-Times
Our own Ruby Streak is featured in a terrific article on music at The Second City. Writer Mike Thomas also talks to former longtime musical director Fred Kaz about the evolution of musical accompaniment at The Second City. Visit suntimes.com for the full scoop.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A&E to Air New John Candy Biography on Dec. 8
Check out A&E’s new Biography featuring Second City and SCTV alum John Candy airing on Tuesday, December 8th @ 10:00pm ET/CT. For more information, visit biography.com.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Advanced Sketch Auditions
This (relatively) new writing class is happening for the third time ever, and it needs you!
Advanced Sketch is a class for experienced writers that includes working with actors from the beginning of the writing process. A small group of writers (approximately eight) work in collaboration with their cast to create scenes that are unique to that ensemble. What’s different this time is the writers are also the performers.
Joe Janes will lead the next round of Advanced Sketch, open to graduates of the Training Center Comedy Writing Program (through Level 6.)
Called "Having All The Fun," Joe will guide writers through a process of creating a show and then the thrill of performing their own material. In this class, students learn how to best write for themselves and their ensemble. They will also learn when to focus on being a writer and when to focus on being a performer.
There is an audition on Saturday, December 5th from 10am-1pm. Qualified students who sign up to audition need to bring hardcopies of a 3-5 page sketch writing sample and an actor/improv resume to the Training Center. Headshot preferred but not required. The show will be presented in the second half of Term 2, 2010. Stop by the Training Center office or call us at 312-664-3959 to set up an audition appointment.
Joe Janes has over twenty years experience as a writer-performer, from being a stand-up comedian, being a founding member of the WNEP Theater Foundation, generating material for Second City's TourCo, writing and recording material for Jellyvision's "You Don't Know Jack", writing and performing corporate videos and shows for Fig Media and from being the artistic director of Robot vs Dinosaur, formerly known as Teatro Bastardo.
Advanced Sketch is a class for experienced writers that includes working with actors from the beginning of the writing process. A small group of writers (approximately eight) work in collaboration with their cast to create scenes that are unique to that ensemble. What’s different this time is the writers are also the performers.
Joe Janes will lead the next round of Advanced Sketch, open to graduates of the Training Center Comedy Writing Program (through Level 6.)
Called "Having All The Fun," Joe will guide writers through a process of creating a show and then the thrill of performing their own material. In this class, students learn how to best write for themselves and their ensemble. They will also learn when to focus on being a writer and when to focus on being a performer.
There is an audition on Saturday, December 5th from 10am-1pm. Qualified students who sign up to audition need to bring hardcopies of a 3-5 page sketch writing sample and an actor/improv resume to the Training Center. Headshot preferred but not required. The show will be presented in the second half of Term 2, 2010. Stop by the Training Center office or call us at 312-664-3959 to set up an audition appointment.
Joe Janes has over twenty years experience as a writer-performer, from being a stand-up comedian, being a founding member of the WNEP Theater Foundation, generating material for Second City's TourCo, writing and recording material for Jellyvision's "You Don't Know Jack", writing and performing corporate videos and shows for Fig Media and from being the artistic director of Robot vs Dinosaur, formerly known as Teatro Bastardo.
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