IMPROV FOR ACTORS
with The Second City’s Kevin Reome
Improv for Actors is a high-energy workshop designed to help performers sharpen their instincts, deepen their authenticity, and bring more spontaneity to the stage and screen. This session with The Second City faculty member Kevin Reome focuses on using improv as a tool for stronger character work, active listening, emotional truth, and bold choices. Whether you’re a seasoned improviser looking to ground your scenes or a scripted actor wanting to loosen up and play, this workshop bridges technique and play to help you become a more dynamic, responsive performer.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Kevin Reome has been studying improv for over 30 years, starting first at The Second City Training Center in Chicago and then also at iO Chicago with Del Close. He is a founding member of the long-form iO improv team “Inside Vladimir”. Kevin starred in The Real, Real World with the Upright Citizens Brigade at the Del Close Theater in the 90’s.
Between facilitating improv students and corporate groups improv training has taken Reome to the University of Michigan, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinnati, San Diego, Baltimore, Denver, Philadelphia, Houston, Mexico City and many others including the Western Michigan University football team and the Detroit Tigers. The Chicago theater groups and corporate entities Kevin has trained are too numerous to mention. He currently teaches at the Second City Training Center in Chicago as a faculty member and has since 2005. In 2014 he taught in Osaka, Japan for The Second City.
He has been producing and starring in his Chicago show “The Reome Ring” every month for the past 5 years. Kevin has a B.A. in English and a teaching degree from Western Michigan University.