Jonathan Pitts

Jonathan Pitts is an award-winning international improv theatre artist from Chicago with over 30 years’ experience. He is a creator, director, improviser, producer teacher and also the Founder and Executive Director of Chicago Improv Productions.

The Chicago Improv Festival was co-founded by Jonathan Pitts and he produced it for over 20 years. Pitts created and produced the College Improv Tournament for 10 years and he was the executive producer of Teen Comedy Fest’s for 7 years. Jonathan is also the founder and producer of Chicago Podcast Festival for the past 2 years. He has been teaching and performing internationally in 12 different countries, as well as all over America. He has performed in over 1,250 improvised shows. On the basis of  his experiences he created has created improv shows like “The Make ‘Em Ups”, „The Oracle“, „The Silent Movie“, “Solo Plus One”, “Stopwatch”, and „Storybox Unscripted Theatre“.

He taught at The Second City for 16 years and he’s a contributing writer to their book on improvisation. Story-based improv is a topic Pitts taught at Piven Theatre Workshop. He also taught at 25+ American cities at regional improv fests and improv theatres.

For 3 consecutive years he was selected by “New City” magazine as one of „Chicago’s Top 50 Theatre Players“.