Kimmie Warner

Kimmie has at least a million years of improv experience (Damn she looks good for being a million years old!).  She teaches within and helped to develop the current curriculums used in the Beginning Improv A-E program and Film School (formerly The Harold Ramis Film School) at The Second City Chicago. She also teaches Improv for Anxiety within their Wellness program.  Kimmie also taught improv to Tom Yorton, one of the guys who wrote the bestselling book:  Yes, And - Lessons from The Second City as well as motivational speaker Judi Holler, who also wrote a bestselling book:  Fear is my Homeboy:  How to Slay Doubt, Boss Up, and Succeed on Your Own Terms.  Additionally, she was voted Second City’s 2018 Teacher of the Year and also received a YES, AND… AWARD for authenticity in 2021. 

Kimmie started and is proud to be a member of the Association of International Comedy Educators, or AICE.  AICE is a group of unionized teaching artists formed from the faculty of The Second City in Chicago, LA and Toronto.   

Kimmie is lucky enough to also teach at University of Illinois at Chicago.  Her official fancy title is: Lecturer, Professional Development Program and Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development (iLEAD) in the College of Business Administration. Which is essentially teaching business students to use improv tools and techniques in their everyday lives and future business careers. She also is advisor for and helped to start the first Improv Club at UIC.  

Other places she has taught improv, applied improv, improv therapy, improv for actors, dramatic improv and acting are: Act One Studios, Emerald City Theatre, The Chicago Public School System (where she also served as a mentor) and Edward Hospital/Arabella House and Northwestern University.  Kimmie also is the Public Speaking Club Coach for The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. As if that were not enough, Kimmie owns her own corporate improv training business called WorkPlayImprov (workplayimprov.com). Her clients include: Starcom, Catepillar, Basecamp, Ingredion, CDW, PwC, EMC, and Taste of Chicago/City of Chicago and countless others.  

She holds a B.S. in Kinesiology from Indiana State University (a lot of good that did her, huh?) and her MBA from University of Illinois at Chicago.  She also is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory, iO, and The Annoyance Theatres. Kimmie has performed and directed countless shows in Chicago’s premiere comedy circuits and venues. She was a founding member of The Playground Theater and played with Cinco de Bob. She is also a member of the critically acclaimed sketch group Dolphins of Damnation.   

Additionally, she has 16 years of sales and management experience (but it is not as exciting as all the improv stuff).   

Kimmie can teach anyone how to improvise and specializes in relationship building and taking the fear out of learning this art form.  She wants to leave you with this: IMPROV=LOVE.

Kevin Reome

Kevin Reome started classes in 1993 at The Second City Training Center in Chicago studying under Don DePollo and Martin de Maat and also at io Chicago with Del Close. He is a founding member of the long-form improv team “Inside Vladimir” which performed as a house team at iO and The Playground Theater, as well as at the New York Improv Fest. Kevin starred in The Real, Real World with the Upright Citizens Brigade at the Del Close Theater in 1995.

He has taught improv at the University of Michigan and coached improv troupes in Ann Arbor and Royal Oak, Michigan and in Chicago, IL.  Currently he teaches at the Second City Training Center in Chicago and has since 2005.

He wrote and starred in a musical called The Eulogist at the Playground Theater in 2001. Kevin starred as Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the 2012 musical that he wrote titled Rahm Zombie. He also co-wrote and starred in Lightfoot Loose, another show about a Chicago mayor.

In 2010 Reome was the video host for monthly webisodes at theWit Hotel in downtown Chicago which ran for 2 years.  In 2013 he hosted a show called Newsprov, combining Chicago news personalities and improvisers, to benefit a charity arts program for inner city youth.

He has appeared on the ABC 7 talk show Windy City Live as well as Fox Chicago, NBC5 Chicago, WBBM Newsradio and WLS Talk Radio.

Kevin worked in education at Ombudsman Educational Services first as a teacher, then as a director of his own school and then as an administrator in charge of training.  He also worked as an insurance agent for over 5 years running the life and health department of his agency. 

Reome has conducted improv workshops for Abbott Pharmaceutical's national sales conference in Montreal, Canada, Task Force Tips (Valparaiso, IN), The Kenrichgroup (Chicago, IL), Forsythe Technology (Skokie, IL), Walgreens (Deerfield, IL), Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Basecamp (Chicago, IL), VMWare (Chicago, IL), and many others.  In 2014 he traveled to Japan for 2 weeks to teach improv for The Second City Training Center.  

Kevin has a B.A. in English and a teaching degree from Western Michigan University.