About rich talarico
Rich Talarico is an Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning writer and producer best known for his work on Comedy Central’s “Key & Peele.“ Additionally, he’s written/produced FOX’s “Mad TV,” NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. He served as improv coach for the film “Anchorman” and did punch-ups on “Mean Girls” and the Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning film, “Get Out.” On camera, Rich has appeared in a number of TV commercials and has appeared in “SNL”, “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”, “Early Edition”, and the feature film “High Fidelity”. Rich took his first improv class from Stephen Colbert at Second City in the 90s and went on to tour with Second City Touring Company. He also worked with Charna Halpern and Del Close at iO Chicago where he played in Chicago’s longest running improv show: “The Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement and Hootenanny.”
Click here for a list of Rich’s work online, including full episodes, commercials and shorts.
Rich will be joining us for 3 workshops: a two-day Sketch Comedy Intensive & two 3-hour Improv Workshops. You can sign up for the Sketch Intensive as a whole and the Improv Workshops individually. Max capacity for each is 16 students. If one of them sells out, we’ll open spots for auditing (ie watching only).