BOOM CHICAGO ACADEMY

This 2 hour class shows you what improv is all about! Sign up alone or with friends and meet new fun people!

This is where it all starts! An exciting eight-week course for beginners of all backgrounds. Join to increase your confidence, performance skills or join a fun community.

This class focuses on initiating and sustaining long-form improvisational scenes. The course starts with a focus on scene fundamentals, acting in improv and an introduction to playing the game.

Continue your development! This course focuses on giving students the tools to develop interesting and well-rounded characters. Various frames of reference will be used including physicality, emotion, status, and music.

Now that you have the basic tools of improv, we’re going to dive into the energy and commitment of short-form game play.

Get out of your head and onto your feet! This workshop will focus on owning the stage. Learn the most concise way to host an improv game or an entire show.

Through exploration of genre and themes, students will create their own short-form games.

This level expands on the students’ previous scene work experience and delves deeper into building dynamic and supportive scenes. Topics include starting scenes organically, exploring support moves and understanding opening devices.

In this course, students will explore the concepts of game and point of view, and how they can use them to drive scenes. Concepts like shiny objects, gift-giving, justifying and straight-manning.

A sweeping overview of long-form formats that will give students an introduction to iconic forms including the La Ronde, the Pretty Flower, the Living Room, and many more.

This course focuses on learning the voice, connecting to the music, and learning basic song structure. This level is aimed at beginners in musical improv. It is taught by Boom Chicago cast member Stacey Smith and accompanied by Jules Dekker. This class is 6 weeks long.

The course covers a wide range of techniques and styles to help you discover your own comedy voice along with exercises to boost confidence, creativity and imagination.

Interested in stand-up, storytelling or writing content but don’t know where to start? Let’s get writing! Finding compelling material through prompts and exploring the humor within. We will focus on how to ‘find the funny’, how to edit your material and putting different joke formats to the test!

Boom Academy students and instructors join forces on stage on the first Sunday of the month. A unique improv comedy Jam once a month!

Enjoy monthly stand-up comedy in Amsterdam! Watch some of the greatest comedians throughout the Netherlands test out some of their newest material at Boom Chicago’s newest monthly open-mic night.

We’re keeping the Pride party going with an evening of queer comedy every 3rd Friday of the month. This open mic is open to anyone who identifies as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Standup, music, drag, puppets, PowerPoint- anything and everything goes.

Two teams enter. One team wins. Experience the heat of comedic roasts as our fearless comedians take aim at each other with affectionate jabs and playful burns.

In the new community night, scripted comedy and characters create a fast-paced and dynamic experience for the audience.

Part of our Boom Chicago Community Nights, this show is a night dedicated to Musical Comedy.

Join us for a night of hilarious female-driven comedy. Improv, stand-up, sketch comedy, and more!