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iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago, with a former branch in Los Angeles called iO West. [1]

74 relations: Adam McKay, Aidy Bryant, Amy Poehler, Andy Dick, Andy Richter, Angela Kinsey, Annoyance Theatre, Bill Hader, Bob Odenkirk, California, Cecily Strong, Charna Halpern, Chicago, Chicago Theatre, Chris Farley, ComedySportz, Danny Pudi, David Koechner, David Pasquesi, David Shepherd (producer), Del Close, Eric Stonestreet, Harold (improvisation), Improvisational theatre, International Olympic Committee, IO Theater, IO West, Jack McBrayer, Jason Sudeikis, Jerry Minor, Joel Murray, John Lutz, Jon Favreau, Kate Flannery, Kay Cannon, Kevin Dorff, Kipleigh Brown, Los Angeles, Maria Blasucci, Masi Oka, Matt Besser, Mick Napier, Mike Myers, Miles Stroth, Mitch Rouse, Neil Flynn, North Carolina, Paul Brittain, Peter Gwinn, Rachel Dratch, ..., Raleigh, North Carolina, Rich Fulcher, Rick Roman, Scott Adsit, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Stephnie Weir, Steve Little (actor), Susan Messing, T. J. Jagodowski, The Groundlings, The Players Workshop, The Second City, Theatresports, Tim Meadows, Tina Fey, TV Guide, Under the Gun Theater, Upright Citizens Brigade, Vanessa Bayer, Vince Vaughn, Viola Spolin, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Wyatt Cenac. Expand index (24 more) »

Adam McKay

Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor.

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Aidy Bryant

Aidan Mackenzy "Aidy" Bryant (born May 7, 1987) is an American actress and comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, beginning in season 38.

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Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, voice artist, comedian, director, producer, and writer.

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Andy Dick

Andrew Roane Dick (born Andrew Thomlinson; December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, musician, and television and film producer.

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Andy Richter

Paul Andrew Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer.

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Angela Kinsey

Angela Faye Kinsey (born June 25, 1971) is an American actress known for her role as the uptight, religious, cat-loving accountant Angela Martin in the NBC television series The Office from April 2005 until the show's finale in 2013.

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Annoyance Theatre

The Annoyance Theatre, or Annoyance Productions as it is sometimes called, is a theatre and associated ensemble based in Chicago, Illinois, that deals mainly in absurd and outrageous humor.

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Bill Hader

William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, producer, and writer.

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Bob Odenkirk

Robert John Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cecily Strong

Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8, 1984) is an American actress and comedian who has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live since 2012.

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Charna Halpern

Charna Halpern (born 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is a co-founder of the ImprovOlympic, now known as iO.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Theatre

The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Chris Farley

Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American actor and comedian.

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ComedySportz

ComedySportz (CSz) is an improvisational comedy organization started in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by a group of local comedians including Dick Chudnow, Bob Orvis, Brian Green, and others.

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Danny Pudi

Daniel Mark Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an American actor and comedian, who is best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC/Yahoo! comedy series Community.

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David Koechner

David Michael Koechner (born August 24, 1962) is an American actor and comedian, best known for playing roles such as Champ Kind in the Anchorman films and Todd Packer on NBC's The Office.

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David Pasquesi

David Pasquesi (born December 23, 1960) is an American comedian, actor and voice over actor living in Chicago.

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David Shepherd (producer)

David Shepherd (born 1924) is an American producer, director, and actor primarily noted for his work in improvisational theatre.

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Del Close

Del P. Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century.

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Eric Stonestreet

Eric Allen Stonestreet (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and comedian.

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Harold (improvisation)

Harold is a structure used in longform improvisational theatre.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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IO Theater

iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago, with a former branch in Los Angeles called iO West.

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IO West

The iO West (formerly known as the "ImprovOlympic West") was the Los Angeles branch of the iO in Chicago.

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Jack McBrayer

Jack McBrayer (born May 27, 1973) is an American actor, voice artist and comedian who gained national exposure for his portrayal of characters on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and as Kenneth Parcell in 30 Rock, for which he was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Jason Sudeikis

Daniel Jason Sudeikis (born September 18, 1975) is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter.

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Jerry Minor

Jerry C. Minor (born October 4, 1969) is an American actor, comedian and writer known for his comedic roles in numerous television programs such as Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, Trigger Happy TV, Delocated, Brickleberry, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Crossballs, The Hotwives of Orlando, Carpoolers, Community, and Lucky Louie.

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Joel Murray

Joel Murray (born April 17, 1963) is an American actor.

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John Lutz

John Lutz (born April 23, 1973) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter.

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Jon Favreau

Jonathan Kolia Favreau (born October 19, 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kate Flannery

Kate Flannery (born June 10, 1964) is an American actress known for playing the role of Meredith Palmer on the NBC series The Office.

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Kay Cannon

Kay Cannon is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress.

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Kevin Dorff

Kevin Dorff (born August 2, 1966) is an American actor and comedian known for his work as a writer and sketch performer on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

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Kipleigh Brown

Kipleigh Brown is an American actress and photographic artist.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Maria Blasucci

Maria Blasucci is an American actress and comedy writer.

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Masi Oka

(born December 27, 1974) is a Japanese-American actor, producer and digital effects artist.

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Matt Besser

Matthew Gregory "Matt" Besser (born September 22, 1967) is an American actor, director and comedian best known as one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from 1998–2000.

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Mick Napier

Mick Napier (born December 12, 1962) is an American director, actor, teacher and author living in Chicago.

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Mike Myers

Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer.

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Miles Stroth

Miles Stroth is an American actor, comedian and teacher.

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Mitch Rouse

Edward Mitchell "Mitch" Rouse (born August 6, 1964) is an American film and television actor, director, and screenwriter.

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Neil Flynn

Neil Richard Flynn (born November 13, 1960) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian, best known for his roles in two critically acclaimed sitcoms; as the Janitor in the NBC comedy series Scrubs (2001-2009; main) and as Mike Heck in the ABC comedy series The Middle (2009-2018).

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Paul Brittain

Paul Brittain (born February 16, 1977) is an American actor and comedian.

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Peter Gwinn

Peter Gwinn is an American comedy writer and improviser from Evanston, Illinois.

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Rachel Dratch

Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress, comedian, producer, and writer.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.

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Rich Fulcher

Richard "Rich" Fulcher (born November 18, 1968) is an American comedian and author based in the United Kingdom.

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Rick Roman

Richard "Rick" Roman (1966–1992) was an actor and improvisational comedian from Philadelphia.

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Scott Adsit

Robert Scott Adsit (born November 26, 1965) is an American comedian, actor and writer.

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Seth Meyers

Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American comedian, writer, political commentator, actor, and television host.

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host.

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Stephnie Weir

Stephnie Carmel Weir (born November 28, 1967) is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

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Steve Little (actor)

Steve Little (born July 1, 1972) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian best known for his roles on the shows Eastbound & Down, Adventure Time, The Grinder, and Haters Back Off.

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Susan Messing

Susan Messing (born December 26, 1963) is an American improvisational theatre performer, teacher and author associated with the Annoyance Theater and iO Theater in Chicago.

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T. J. Jagodowski

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The Groundlings

The Groundlings are an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe and school based in Los Angeles, California.

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The Players Workshop

Created in 1971 by Josephine Forsberg, The Players Workshop was Chicago's only official school of improvisation for over a decade.

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The Second City

The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise, best known as the first ever on-going improvisational theater troupe based in Chicago.

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Theatresports

Theatresports is a form of improvisational theatre, which uses the format of a competition for dramatic effect.

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Tim Meadows

Timothy Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian and one of the longest-running cast members on Saturday Night Live, where he appeared for ten seasons.

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Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer and playwright.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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Under the Gun Theater

Under the Gun Theater is a theater company located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Upright Citizens Brigade

The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990.

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Vanessa Bayer

Vanessa Bayer (born) is an American actress and comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, for which she earned a Primetime Emmy nomination as well as for supporting roles in the films Trainwreck (2015), Office Christmas Party (2016) and Carrie Pilby (2016).

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Vince Vaughn

Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian.

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Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 — November 22, 1994) was a theatre academic, educator and acting coach.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a short-form improvisational comedy show originating as a popular British radio programme, before moving to British television in 1988.

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Wyatt Cenac

Wyatt Cenac (born April 19, 1976) is an American comedian, actor, producer and Emmy Award winning writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO_Theater

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