Faculty

Rhiannon Jenkins

Rhiannon has performed and taught with Hoopla and the Nursery in London, and worldwide for festivals such as Boom Chicago Comedy Festival, TILT, and The Dramatic Improv Festival.

She directs Hot Singles in Your Area, and directed The Love Circle at The Hideout Theatre, which was nominated for the Ethel Hinkley Award for Outstanding New Troupe.

She is a member of They Don't Know the Half of It, The Ol' Bill, and Eggplant improv and has performed in and directed several shows at The Hideout Theatre.

Rhiannon previously performed with Acaprov: the improvised A Capella Musical, Improbotics, Happy in Their Own Way, and other Nursery Originals productions.

Rhiannon specializes in acting, performance technique, and theatrical presentation, as well as musical improv.

Chris Griswold

Chris has performed and taught improv for 25 years, spending more than a decade in the NYC improv comedy scene. In New York, he was a performer at the Annoyance theatre and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and he worked for world-class UCB Training Center.

Chris is one of the world’s most prolific improv teachers, having trained thousands of students worldwide. His students have gone on to write, direct, or star in such things as Weird (The Weird Al biopic), The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Three Busy Debras, Silicon Valley, New Girl, The President Show, Inside Amy Schumer, and Broadways’ Stuffed.

He hosts the Improv Discussion and Resources podcast and co-created Pineappl, the video app for live improv.

Chris writes and acts, appearing in a variety of sketch comedy videos, commercials, and PSAs, as well as co-writing and coaching TEDx Talks.

Chris specializes in improv technique and comedy, as well as genre improv.