Join two facilitators at the Revival Theater for a 2 hour dose of improv, leadership tools, and creative communication strategies for your career and the courtroom. This workshop will help students become more confident and comfortable in variety of settings and provide some tools that every law student should have in their back pocket. Key objectives for the session will be:

• "Presenting" - Expressing ideas with authority and comfort
• "Responding" - Processing input and replying in a  constructive manner
• "Recovering" - Focusing on the moment and moving forward.

 Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students.

The Revival, a 149-seat cabaret-style comedy club recently opened on the corner of 55^th and University. Conceived by John Stoops, a longtime theater producer (he founded the Three Oaks Summer Theater Festival in Michigan) and former Leo Burnett adman, The Revival aims to reemphasize improv comedy’s South Side roots. The pioneering Compass Players, whose members included the late director Mike Nichols and comedienne Elaine May, invented the genre in Hyde Park in 1955.  John Stoops is also a former cast member of the Second City-affiliated European troupe Boom Chicago.

The two facilitators that will work with students on Friday, February 5th are Andel Sudik and Micah Philbrook. Andel Sudik is an accomplished improvisational actor and teacher.  As an actor, Andel has performed across the United States and Europe including Second City ETC’s We’re ALL In This Room Together and two ensemble revues with the acclaimed European improv troupe Boom Chicago.  As a teacher, Andel has worked with groups of all sizes and backgrounds from Austin, Texas to Bucharest, Romania.

Micah Philbrook is a founding member of The pH Comedy Theater, and half the sketch comedy duo, the tim&micah project.  Micah currently teaches at the Second City and performs regularly with the tim&micah project, That Sunday Show, and Those Who Can’t.

Participating students are required to have completed a previous improv training during either Kapnick or 1L Orientation. Preference will be given to students who have logged points for the 2015-2016 Keystone Professionalism & Leadership Program. 

Space is limited.  Transportation to and from the law school and light snacks will be provided.

RSVPs are required by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 29th. To sign up for the  program, please go to http://www.law.uchicago.edu/RevivalTheater.

For any questions, please contact Courtney Wylie at cowylie@uchicago.edu.