Jonny Nelson

Let go of control and lose yourself to the joy of whimsy and play. Don’t plot and calculate your way through your scene. Follow the fun! There is nothing quite as lovely as turning your brain “off” for a bit!

JONNY NELSON has been improvising for 15 years. He has also taught improv for the Second City, Comedy Sportz, and DePaul University’s Theater School, as well as many more theaters and businesses. It has also been his great pleasure to teach improvisational comedy and sketch writing at The Second City in Chicago. As an instructor at The Second City, he teaches classes in long and short form improvisation, advanced improv, improv for anxiety, improv for Parkinson’s, improv for actors, youth improv, and comedy writing classes. He have also served as the director for many of The Second City’s Youth and Teen Ensembles as well as a guest teacher at many Chicago Schools.

Outside of Chicago, Jonny has had the pleasure of guest teaching at The Kennedy Center, The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and at theaters in Amsterdam, Brussels, Oslo, Antwerp, Bucharest, and Dallas. In addition to these, he teaches improv workshops for business and has taught at many places including LinkedIn, The Federal Passport Agency, and Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.