Improv in isolation with The Second City’s Kelly Leonard

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Kelly Leonard, Executive Vice President of improv institution The Second City and author of the book Yes, And, chats with designer Neil Stevenson in this video. They talk about everything from hiring Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey, and how improv’s philosophy of ‘play the scene you’re in, not the scene you want to be in’ applies to our current climate, to tips on treating the Zoom video conference as a performance.

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