Contributing article from Arts Council of White Lake – Nuveen Center: Second City Improvisers Coming to White Lake to Improv(e) Your Life

Improv(e) Your Life by enjoying an inspiring evening of improv AND helping to support the arts in White Lake! The Arts Council of White Lake – Nuveen Center is excited to showcase two veteran Chicago-based Second City performers, Dee Ryan and Kevin Reome, for an improv comedy fundraiser at The Playhouse at White Lake on Friday, May 31 at 7:00pm. Buying a ticket to this event will have a ripple effect of goodness – it will help fund future arts programming at the ACWL-Nuveen and let you experience the agility of professional improvisors collaborating on stage with your fellow community members.

“We gotta do this together. That is the ultimate goal of improvisers,” said Dee Ryan enthusiastically describing what they enjoy about improvisational comedy. “We’re just going to come in together and we’re going to create something wonderful right away.”

Dee, who has worked as an instructor at Second City since 2022, has a diverse range of performance experience. They have spent time as a producer, host, and writer for Louder Than a Mom, a theme-based storytelling show, and as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Radio, Television, and Film.

Fellow Second City performer 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. Kevin currently teaches at the Second City Training Center in Chicago as a faculty member and has since 2005.

Alongside their evening performance, Dee and Kevin will also be teaching two improv classes for beginning and intermediate students earlier in the day on Friday, May 31. Students who partake in the intermediate class will be included in the first half of that evening’s show! 

Inspired to Improv(e) Your Life?  – you can purchase tickets for the event and learn more about the classes by visiting https://www.artswhitelake.org/improv or calling the Arts Council of White Lake – Nuveen Center at (231) 893-2524.