Dee Ryan is an Adjunct Professor of Improvisation and Comedy at Northwestern University in the department of Radio,Televison and Film. She’s an alumna of The Second City having written and performed three shows on their ETC stage. She toured nationally and internationally with The Reduced Shakespeare Company in “The Millennium Musical - Abridged” performing at such venues as, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Jerusalem Theater Festival in Israel. She performed with “Modern Problems of Science” at The Adelaide Comedy Festival in Australia. In 2012, she directed a reduced “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at an English immersion camp in Beijing, China. She has worked as a writer at Disney Animated Studios and has written and performed two one-person shows “DeeConstruction” and “Broadguess.” This past fall she performed in “Misery Loves Company” an improvised horror-comedy with Second City alum Joe Liss. “Louder Than a Mom” her bi-monthly female forward storytelling show is now in its eleventh year at Martrys in Chicago. Dee has also worked as a corporate speaking coach and speech writer. She continues to appear in her students' short films and has appeared on TV in “The United States of Tara” and “The Office” as Michael Scott’s improv partner.