Corporate Team Building

Team Building • Corporate Training • Event Entertainment

Stronger teams. Better communication. Memorable experiences.

Improv Playhouse® brings the principles of improvisation into the workplace—and professional comedy into corporate events. For more than 25 years, IP has worked with Fortune 500 companies, businesses, associations, schools, nonprofit organizations, churches, synagogues, and community groups throughout Chicago and beyond. Whether your objective is to strengthen communication, develop more confident leaders, energize a conference, reward employees, or create an unforgettable evening of entertainment, IP-B2B builds the experience around your people and your desired outcomes…plus we have fun along the way!

BRING YOUR EVENT TO IP

IP-B2B programs can be presented at your location—or hosted at Improv Playhouse® in downtown Libertyville. Our flexible theater and lobby areas can accommodate business meetings, team-building programs, receptions, fundraisers, private events, presentations, and live entertainment. The facility includes restrooms, flexible seating and table arrangements, catering-friendly areas, and available audio and visual support. Host a single program or build a more complete experience combining your meeting, refreshments or catered meal, team development, entertainment, and production needs in one distinctive setting.

PROFESSIONAL TALENT. PROVEN EXPERIENCE.

For more than 25 years, Improv Playhouse® performers have entertained audiences at Fortune 500 events, corporate functions, colleges, schools, private celebrations, community programs, and professional venues.

Our performers bring professional training and experience from respected comedy institutions, theaters, clubs, and media productions. Improv Playhouse alumni include Saturday Night Live cast member Vanessa Bayer.

YOUR PLACE OR OURS

Let IP-B2B bring professional comedy directly to your event, or host your group at Improv Playhouse® in downtown Libertyville. Tell us about your audience, occasion, venue, and goals. We’ll help you choose the comedy format—or combination of formats—that fits your event.

OUTCOMES-BASED TEAM BUILDING

Through engaging, hands-on Applied Improvisation, IP-B2B helps participants develop and practice the essential skills their teams rely upon every day:

Active listening
Clear communication
Creative problem-solving
Collaboration and adaptability
Confident decision-making
Leadership and presence
Trust and team engagement

Every IP-B2B workshop is customized around the needs, culture, and objectives of your organization. Programs can be presented as a one-hour energizer, a lunch-and-learn, a half-day workshop, a full-day experience, or part of a larger conference or retreat.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

Improv Playhouse® enhances the TRAINING and LEARNING function of your organization. We call this “Applied Improvisation.”

CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR NEEDS:

Improv Playhouse® Team Building will customize a workshop, lunch-and-learn, or create a workshop scaled to your needs. No matter the size of the group, time frame, or objectives. We can maximize your staff’s potential by focusing on these principles:

CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT

Sometimes the objective is simply to bring people together and give them a terrific experience.

IP-B2B provides interactive, professionally produced entertainment for conferences, holiday celebrations, employee appreciation events, fundraisers, client gatherings, retreats, picnics, and private functions.

Choose from:

Interactive murder mysteries
Customized improv comedy shows
Comedy cabarets
Professional stand-up comedians
Company picnics and outdoor games

Our performers bring national, regional, and Chicago-area professional credentials. Programs can be customized for your organization, audience, occasion, and preferred level of participation.

BUILT AROUND YOUR EVENT

No two organizations—and no two audiences—are exactly alike. We begin by learning what you want the experience to accomplish.

IP-B2B can tailor:

Program length and format
Group size and level of participation
Workplace themes and organizational objectives
Industry-specific material
Leadership or communication priorities
Venue and event schedule
Corporate-clean and family-friendly content

From a focused leadership workshop to an interactive comedy experience for hundreds of guests, IP-B2B brings together skilled facilitation, professional performance, and more than two decades of experience.

Tell us about your organization, your audience, and what you want them to take away from the event. We’ll help you select—or create—the right IP-B2B experience.

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INTERACTIVE MURDER MYSTERIES

Your Guests Don’t Just Watch the Mystery—They Become Part of It

EXPLORE OUR MURDER MYSTERY THEMES

Bring your group together for an immersive, laugh-filled mystery in which professional Improv Playhouse® actors lead the action—and your guests become suspects, witnesses, investigators, and even potential victims.

Choose from an extensive collection of themes spanning gangsters, cruise ships, high-school reunions, superheroes and villains, seasonal celebrations, and holiday mysteries. From Halloween chills and Christmas intrigue to programs designed for summer gatherings, winter celebrations, and special occasions throughout the year, we can match the mystery to your audience and event.

Every experience combines colorful characters, comic interaction, hidden clues, surprising revelations, and a crime your guests must work together to solve. Programs can be tailored to your organization, occasion, venue, and preferred level of audience participation.

Ideal for:

Corporate events and employee celebrations
Holiday parties
Fundraisers
Conferences and retreats
Private parties and milestone occasions
Community, church, and social organizations

Available for intimate gatherings and larger events, with programs accommodating approximately 10 to 100+ guests.

REQUEST A MURDER MYSTERY CONSULTATION

CORPORATE COMEDY

Professional Comedy—Customized for Your Event

Bring your employees, clients, members, or guests together for a shared experience filled with smart, engaging, professional comedy.

IP-B2B offers three flexible entertainment formats: Improv Comedy Shows, Stand-Up Comedy, and Comedy Cabarets. Each program can be customized around your organization, audience, occasion, venue, and preferred theme.. We can bring the entertainment to your workplace, hotel, conference center, restaurant, banquet facility, or special-event venue—or welcome your group to Improv Playhouse® in downtown Libertyville.

IMPROV COMEDY SHOWS

Fast-paced, interactive, and created in the moment, our improv comedy shows invite the audience to help inspire the action. Using suggestions from your guests—and, when appropriate, information supplied by your organization—our professional performers create scenes, characters, stories, and comic situations on the spot. Every performance is different because every audience is different. Corporate and family-friendly comedy is our vibe.

Programs can be tailored to incorporate:

Your organization or industry
Conference themes and event objectives
Workplace experiences and shared references
Audience suggestions and participation
Employee recognition or company milestones
Corporate-clean or family-friendly content
Your preferred program length

The result is a spirited, highly interactive comedy experience that brings people together and gives them something to talk about long after the final scene.

REQUEST A CORPORATE COMEDY CONSULTATION

PICNICS, FIELD DAYS & OUTDOOR GAMES

Get Your Group Moving, Laughing, and Playing Together

Turn your company picnic, school field day, reunion, retreat, or community gathering into an organized experience filled with friendly competition and genuine group participation. IP-B2B creates and facilitates outdoor games and team challenges customized around your audience, location, schedule, and desired level of activity. Our experienced Games Masters keep the program moving, explain each challenge, engage participants, and make sure everyone knows where to go and what happens next. You provide the people and the setting. We bring the structure, energy, and fun.

MORE THAN A COLLECTION OF GAMES

A successful picnic or field day needs more than equipment scattered across a lawn. It needs a plan. IP-B2B can organize participants into teams, establish a rotation of activities, manage scoring, make announcements, facilitate competitions, and build toward a spirited finish.

Programs may include:

Traditional relay races
Sack races
Hula-hoop challenges
Team competitions
Physical and mental challenges
Trivia and game-show activities
Jeopardy!-style games
Family Feud-style competitions
Gaga and hockey-pit activities
Customized company or organization challenges
Games designed for children, adults, or mixed-age groups

Activities are selected according to the group’s ages, abilities, interests, available space, and desired degree of competition.

CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR GROUP

No two gatherings are exactly alike. We can design a program for active competitors, casual participants, families, mixed generations, or groups that prefer more thinking than sprinting.

Your experience can be tailored around:

Group size and age range
Venue and available outdoor space
Program length
Physical activity level
Team-building objectives
Company, school, or event themes
Competitive or recreational play
Family-friendly participation
Indoor or lower-activity alternatives when appropriate

Programs can range from a featured block of games to a more complete field-day experience with teams, activity stations, scoring, and an awards finale.

IDEAL FOR

Company picnics
Employee-appreciation events
Corporate retreats
School and camp field days
Church and community gatherings
Family reunions
Neighborhood celebrations
Conferences and association events
Holiday and seasonal gatherings
Private parties

PROFESSIONAL FACILITATION MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

Our Games Masters and facilitators do more than announce activities. They read the group, encourage participation, maintain momentum, adjust when necessary, and create an atmosphere in which people feel comfortable joining the fun. The result is an event that feels organized without feeling rigid—and competitive without becoming cutthroat. Tell us about your audience, location, available space, schedule, and goals. IP-B2B will help create a picnic, field day, or outdoor-games program designed specifically for your event.

REQUEST A PICNIC OR OUTDOOR-GAMES CONSULTATION

STAND-UP COMEDIANS & COMEDY CABARETS

STAND-UP COMEDY

Give your audience a professional comedy-club experience without taking unnecessary chances with inappropriate material. IP-B2B carefully selects comedians whose style, experience, and material fit your organization and occasion. We can provide a featured comedian, host and headliner, or a complete comedy lineup based on your audience, schedule, and budget. Our stand-up comedians include established Chicago, regional, and nationally experienced performers with credits from professional comedy clubs, theaters, festivals, corporate events, and media appearances.

Stand-up comedy is an excellent choice for:

Holiday celebrations
Employee-appreciation events
Fundraisers
Conferences and conventions
Awards programs
Association and community events
Churches, synagogues, and nonprofit organizations
Private parties and milestone celebrations

Content is selected to remain corporate-clean, family-friendly, and appropriate to your vibe and our brand!

COMEDY CABARETS

Our Comedy Cabarets combine elements of improv, stand-up, music, audience interaction, and customized comedy in one flexible performance. A typical cabaret may feature one or more comedians or improvisers working alongside a professional musician or keyboardist. Performers can incorporate audience suggestions, organizational themes, and pre-submitted information into an experience created specifically for the occasion.

The Comedy Cabaret works especially well for:

Cocktail receptions
Holiday parties
Fundraisers
Client-appreciation events
Roasts and tributes
Smaller private gatherings
Venues requiring a flexible entertainment footprint

It offers the energy of a live comedy show with the intimacy and adaptability of a cabaret performance.

BUILT AROUND YOUR AUDIENCE

Choosing the right comedy matters. Before recommending a program, we consider:

Who will be attending
The purpose and tone of the event
Group size and venue
Desired level of audience participation
Program length and event schedule
Organizational culture
Content expectations
Available production and technical support

We can present a complete comedy program or incorporate entertainment into a larger meeting, conference, dinner, fundraiser, or celebration.

REQUEST A CORPORATE COMEDY CONSULTATION

Words from some of our previous clients.

“Thanks for a great evening – the opportunity to “be creative” in a different format with people we don’t always spend “fun” time with. Great exercises, created a nice way to encourage people to open up and give of yourself for the greater good – one for all, all for one. Far surpassed what other organizations have brought to our table. David Stuart led one of the best team-building events I have participated in.

“The improv comedy team (from Improv Playhouse®) was great. It’s so amazing that they can come up with the material so quickly. What I thought was going to be a work function turned into a party! The improv performance was by far the highlight of the day”

“This was the best team-building exercise that our group has ever done. It was truly memorable and life-changing. Even the individuals who we assumed would not participate blew others out of the water, as this really catered to those trying to break down communication barriers. Thank you very much, David and the Improv Playhouse® team!”

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for all of your help in planning our event last night! It turned out beautifully and everyone had such a great time—it was the perfect team building event for our group. Again, thank you for all of your help, this was a great and worthwhile experience for us!”

“What connects community, entertainment and delivers an effective business message? David’s “in-charge” leadership of the Improv Playhouse®. David’s commitment to his team and their development is exemplified in the quality and depth of the performances as well as their compassion. My recommendations to any business or organization looking for training or entertainment that is darn right fun, book soon or you will be on a wait list.”