Based on one audience suggestion
The Improvised Shakespeare Co.
creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each play is completely improvised, so each play is entirely new! Watch a video!

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Awards

2010 Ensemble of the Year
Chicago Improv Festival

NOMINEE - Best Improv Group
2010 ECNY Awards

2009 Reader’s Choice – Best Improv Group

Chicago Reader

WINNER! – Best Comedic Performance by a Group
2008 New York Nightlife Awards

Best Improv Troupe

The Chicago Examiner

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ISC Founder, Blaine Swen, Named Best Improviser in Chicago

Congrats to our founder and director (and performer too), Blaine Swen, for being named The Best Improviser in Chicago by the Chicago Reader!!!&n...

CIF to Honor the ISC as Ensemble of the Year!

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 ...

"staggeringly brilliant"

TimeOut Chicago

"Smart, sophisticated, downright hilarious"

TimeOut Chicago

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