About Us
Hive Society Improv serves as the University of Illinois' long-form school of improv. Hive seeks to educate improvisers of all experience levels and maintain a welcoming, inclusive, passionate, and safe environment for all students to learn and perform improv. To successfully coach less experienced improvisers, a new team or “NewBee team” is created with each held audition. Over time, this creates a network of teams stratified by years of experience on Hive. As a feature of this form of stratification, Hive has its more experienced members educate and coach the newer teams through traditions passed down by word of mouth, written word, historical/archival video content, etc. In addition to the years-of-experience-based teams, Hive Society seeks to create and maintain the infrastructure to support “elective” teams within its network. These elective teams offer Hive Society members more creative outlets with which to strengthen their improvisational and comedic skills. This is made possible through more diverse offerings of improv opportunities like music, stand-up, and more. All of the teams in the network seek to contribute to the overall strength of the greater Hive Society network as well as the betterment of Illinois Improv Comedy as a whole
