The Improvised Shakespeare Company: News Feed

The ISC Nominated for an ECNY Award!

9/8/2010 8:52:10 AM

We are pleased to announce that the ISC is a nominee for the ECNY Award for "Best Improv Group". Each year the ECNY Awards honor the best in New York City comedy. This year the ISC has been nominated for its several runs in NYC throughout 2009. The winner of each ECNY Award is determined by a public vote. To vote for the ISC go to ECNYawards.com. The winners will be announced at the 2009 ECNY Awards ceremony, held March 8, 2010, at 8:00pm; at Comix NY; 353 West 14th St.

NEW ISC Workshop for Improvisers

9/8/2010 8:52:10 AM

The ISC will begin a new four-week workshop for improvisers beginning Saturday, August 28. The class will be held at the world famous iO Theater in Chicago and will be taught by ISC founder and director, Blaine Swen.

Time: Saturdays, noon-3pm
Cost: $125

For more information visit our WORKSHOPS page or call the iO training center at 773.880.0199.

ISC Founder, Blaine Swen, Named Best Improviser in Chicago

9/8/2010 8:52:10 AM

Congrats to our founder and director (and performer too), Blaine Swen, for being named The Best Improviser in Chicago by the Chicago Reader!!! Now, we'll never hear the end of it.

CIF to Honor the ISC as Ensemble of the Year!

9/8/2010 8:52:10 AM

Chicago Improv Festival Productions has announced that it will honor The Improvised Shakespeare Company as the CIF 2010 Ensemble of the Year. The CIF Awards Night will be on Wednesday, April 21 at The Second City ETC, from 6:30pm-8:30pm. Susan Messing will be honored as the CIF 2010 Improviser of the Year. Harold Ramis, Dick Schaal, and Severn Darden (posthumously) will also be honored with Lifetime Achievement awards.

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9/8/2010 8:52:10 AM

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The ISC to Perform at the 38th Annual Conference of the Shakespeare Association of America

9/8/2010 8:52:10 AM

The ISC is pleased to announce that it will be performing at the 38th Annual Conference of The Shakespeare Association of America in Chicago, IL.

The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a non-profit, academic organization devoted to the study of William Shakespeare and his plays and poems, the cultural and theatrical milieu in which he lived and worked, and the various roles he has played in both Anglo-American and world culture ever since. The Association holds annual meetings in different North American cities so that its members can exchange ideas and discuss strategies for reading, teaching, researching, and writing about Shakespeare's works and their many contexts. Sessions at these conferences include formal papers, seminars, workshops, film screenings, and theatrical performances.

For more info on the SAA visit www.shakespeareassociation.org