IO Theatre (formerly ImprovOlympics)

This year’s Group Psychotherapy Foundation luncheon entertainment is sure to be hilarious. IO Theatre is an improvisation troupe, founded by Charna Halpern. IO Theatre is touted as Chicago’s Best Improv Theatre. For more than 25 years, Charna Halpern has been teaching performers how to work together. Having founded the world famous ImprovOlympic Theatres (now iO) in Chicago and Hollywood, Charna’s theaters are the meccas of training in the art of improvisation and act as a recruiting stop for television shows like Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and MADtv, supplying both coasts with writers and performers. The theater’s celebrity alumni include Mike Meyers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and The Upright Citizens Brigade.

This event is included with the five-day Institute and Conference package or three-day Conference registration.