Rance's Info
Hi, I’m Rance Rizzutto. I started doing improv with ComedySportz in Portland as well as joining Portland’s longest running sketch comedy troupe, The Third Floor. I performed with both until making the decision to head to Chicago!Since moving to Chicago in 2003 I have performed with ComedySportz, Chicago, DSI (The Beatbox), Silent Treatment (award winning two-person silent improv), seven8nine, and various other improv teams and venues.
Second City also hired me to perform improv and sketch with their theatrical division aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL). I’ve performed sketch and improv all over the seas. Caribbean, Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, and in late 2009, the Pacific Ocean…Hawaii. All in all, I’ve spent 17 months traveling and performing aboard cruise ships. That’s a LOT of buffet food.
Traveling with Second City also made possible one of my favorite improv opportunities: sitting in with the Istanbul, Turkey improv group Istanbulimpro and singing about swearing with cultural awareness (SFW).
After years of performing, I started teaching as well. I currently teach for iO, and have taught for ComedySportz and Second City in the past. People come from all over the world to study improvisation in Chicago, and I’ve been thrilled to help people grow.
Best yet, in 2014 iO sent Tara and I to Europe to teach their 3-day intensives. In that time we also got to perform Here in Estonia, Germany, Copenhagen, and Latvia.
Currently, I can be seen at iO Chicago performing with The Deltones and Chaos Theory on Saturday nights, and of course HERE, with Tara DeFrancisco.
For more info: http://comedy.rancerizzutto.com
Rance's Workshops
| Shortform in Longform |
| Emotional Fluidity |
| Improv Rehab |
| Solidifying Shortform |
| Public/Corporate Workshop |
"Rance tricks you into having fun and taking improv less seriously so you can have fun and then realize he’s making you take improv more seriously! I have been having a great weekend since this workshop!" - Jared Larson
"I thought that the workshop was incredibly helpful…It helped us realize in practice what we’ve always been told about improv in theory…Rance knows his stuff and knows how to get great performances out of improvisors." - Mike Madgiak
"The simplest and most honest thing to say about Rance’s training / coaching / teaching is that it is an absolute explosion of fun from beginning to end. He creates and fosters a supportive and safe atmosphere that allowed me to not worry about failing in the exercises." - Orlando Lara