About: Players

Blaine Swen


Blaine Swen is the creator and director of The Improvised Shakesepare Company. He comes from California where he performed with ComedySportz, Ultimate Improv, and iO West. Currently, he can be seen performing at iO Chicago with The DelTones and The Armando Diaz Experience.  His other iO credits include the house team Bullet Lounge and the one-man improvised musical, BASH!. He enjoys touring with the iO Road Show and The Second City's BizCo.  He has performed in Chicago with The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Pegasus Players Theatre, and The Second City Education Company. The Chicago Reader recently named him 2010's "Best Improviser in Chicago". 



news

NYC! Here We Come!

The ISC is returning to Theatre 80 St Marks in Manhattan's lower east side for five shows this weekend.  If you are in or around NYC come and catch the show that TimeOut New York calls "a bona fide phenomenon". ...

More ISC Videos!

Need an ISC fix?  Check out brand new videos of The ISC in our VIDEO GALLERY.  There you can catch clips of our regular home shows at the iO Theater in Chicago.  You can also catch glimpses of us on the road at plac...
reviews

"staggeringly brilliant"

TimeOut Chicago

"Smart, sophisticated, downright hilarious"

TimeOut Chicago

View all awards and quotes.