A Shakespearean “Every Brilliant Thing”
An interactive immersive comic solo Shakespeare show. Detective Broadguess, working the Elsinore Castle beat (ghosts, again), gets a hot tip about a young girl (Ophelia) drowning in a brook by the castle. Broadguess’s investigation leads them down a Shakespearean rabbit hole, entangling them in the outrageous and terrifying world of William Shakespeare! Broadguess asks the question, “Who is this William Shakespeare and why is he getting away with murder?” Hilarity, mind-games, dancing and improv happen here.
Dee Ryan
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Dee Ryan *
Dee Ryan
On television, you may have seen Dee as Steve Carrell’s improv partner in The Office. She has also appeared in The Practice, 10 Items or Less, USA of Tara and as Sylvie, in Commuter Confidential on TBS. Dee is a proud alumna of The Second City in Chicago writing and performing three reviews on The Second City E.T.C. stage and touring nationally with the blue company - Mighty mighty Blue Co! On stage, Dee tours with Joe Liss in the improvised two-hander Misery Loves Company last seen at The Rochester Theater Festival in 2025. She tours and leads workshops with Hodge Podge, an all female long-for improv company from Chicago’s Bughouse Theater. Dee originated the role of Dee in The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s production of The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged) touring nationally and internationally and performed with Modern Problems in Science at the Adelaide Comedy Festival in Adelaide, Australia. Dee is an original cast member of The Armando Diaz Experience and Hootenany,Stacy’s Not Here and The All Girl Revue - winner of the Audience Award at the 2010 Women in Comedy Festival in Boston, MA. As playwright, in September of 2020, Dee’s solo Shakespeare piece, Broadguess, was performed at Flatwater Shakespeare’s Unshaken Festival in Flatwater, Nebraska. DeeConstruction, Dee’s personal solo show, has been performed at such venues as Pittsburgh Public Theater, Merrimack Repertory Theater and the Reston Center Theater, as well as the fanaticSalon, IO Hollywood and UCB stages and was pitched as a graphic novel; the illustrated Dee has a waist. Dee Contributed additional material to the stage play The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged) published by Broadway Play Publishing; and Co-wrote Fatwah Caprice with Russ Lees and Dave Razowsky which was produced at the Zephyr theater in LA. As a screenwriter: Dee adapted Susan Patron’s Newberry Award winning children’s book The Higher Power of Lucky for Pistor Productions; the tentatively titled Master Debaters; All the Other Reindeers with Austin Tichenor, and worked in development on Fowl Play for Disney Animated Features. For television, she produced and co-wrote Wrecked (sizzle reel pilot) for Eyeboogie Productions, as well as contributing sketches for HBO’s Sketchpad and additional material to the TBS pilot The Week Reduced and a Second City women’s comedy news pilot. Dee is an Adjunct Professor of Comedy Improvisation and Sketch in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern University in EvanstoAn, IL, and has appeared in over five student short films. Dee teaches acting, ensemble and improvisation to sketch at The Second City Conservatory in Chicago, IL and Hollywood, CA. Dee is a member of the North Shore Shakespeare Society and the online Shakespeare Bio-fiction Club. In 2010, Dee taught a Shakespeare English immersion theater camp in Beijing, China. Dee still improvises all around Chicago and hosts, produces and curates a monthly storytelling show, Louder Than a Mom. She studied improvisation with Del Close, Mick Napier and Charna Halpern. Dee graduated from The Boston Conservatory and has a certificate in writing from UCLA.