Anne Libera (Program Head and Co-Teacher, History and Analysis of Modern Comedy) is the Executive Artistic Director for The Second City Training Centers & Education Programs, International has worked with The Second City since 1986 and has taught in The Training Center since 1991. Her book, The Second City Almanac of Improvisation is published by Northwestern University Press. For The Second City, she directed The Madness of Curious George and Computer Chips and Salsa, the Theatre on the Lake productions The Second City Goes to War and The Second City Looks at The Windy City as well as touring company productions that have appeared all over the United States, in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vienna, Austria. Outside of Second City, her directing credits include Bunny, Bunny for Illinois Theatre Center and Stephen Colbert’s one man show Describing a Circle at Live Bait. She has been an artistic consultant to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and is on the part-time faculty of Columbia College. She has reviewed theater on WGN radio and written for the NPR news quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Anne serves on the governing board for Gilda's Club Chicago.

Sheldon Patinkin (History and Analysis of Modern Comedy) is the Chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago, Artistic Director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, Artistic Consultant of The Second City and of Steppenwolf Theatre and Co-Director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Summer Ensemble Workshops. Among recent directing projects outside of the College have been the world premiere of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited at the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre and at the 59E59 Theatre in New York, The Glass Menagerie for the Gift Theater Company, South Pacific at the Metropolis Art Center, Uncle Vanya at Steppenwolf, Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Irish Rep and the Galway Festival in Ireland, and Krapp's Last Tape for the Buckets of Beckett Festival, both starring John Mahoney, as well as concert stagings of opera scenes and excerpts for the Lyric Opera Center at the Grant Park and Ravinia Festival Concerts. He received a Jeff Award for directing his Irving Berlin revue Puttin’ on the Ritz and a special Jeff for his contribution to Chicago theater. His translation of Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan was directed by Frank Galati at the Goodman Theatre. His book The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater was published by SourceBooks in 2000 and No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance, his text book on the history of the American musical, will be published by Northwestern University Press in the spring of 2007.

Michael Gellman (Creating Scenes through Improvisation) was a Resident Company member of The Second City Chicago for three years, has directed at The Second City, and is on the Senior Faculty of The Second City Training Center. He was nominated for Outstanding Director for the national Dora Mavor Moore Award in Canada and the Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago, and he won the Detroit Free Press Award for Best Comedy. Michael served as Artistic Director of Chicago Theatre Works and Wavelength and as an Artistic Associate of Organic Theater. In addition to The Second City Training Center, Michael has taught at Columbia College, Northern Illinois University and Artistic New Directions. His book Process, co-written with Mary Scruggs is being published by Northwestern University Press.

Norm Holly (Acting III: Sketch and Theatrical Comedy) is the Artistic Director, Head of Conservatory and Acting Programs for The Second City Training Center. He has directed Second City shows including Baby Richards Got Back and 40 Oz. and a Mule. He was the Assistant Chairman of the Columbia College Theater Department for eight years and directed many productions there including Caucasian Chalk Circle with Jeff Perry and Barbara Robertson and Once in a Lifetime with Michael Maggio. Norm appeared in the New Broadway Theater production of Streamers with Dennis Farina, directed by Terry Kinney. He was director of the live comedy series Anti-Comedy I/II/III with Dino Stamotopolous and Andy Dick, on-camera director for Cinifolio (now Short), and director and producer of Second City's NBC pilot as well as dozens of revue productions.

Mary Scruggs (Writing Comic Scenes) is the Head of Writing and Education Programs for The Second City Training Center. She wrote The Fairy Trials, a series of nationally acclaimed plays for the Circuit Court of Cook County which teach the public about their court system and have played for audiences of all ages throughout Cook County and beyond for twenty years. Mary's other playwriting credits include What Every Girl Should Know, a co-adaptation with Susan Messing, produced by The Annoyance Theater; Karma, developed at the Lakeside Writing Studio, produced by Live Bait Theatre; Bedtime Stories at the Skybox Theater, Off The Grid and War Times at the Boxer Rebellion Theatre, and Revelations, winner of the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Contest. Mary was the lyricist and co-librettist for Camp Nimrod For Girls at Live Bait Theatre. While in Los Angeles, she sold a script for Designing Women, developed a sitcom for Hearst Entertainment and wrote a handful of jokes for Barry Manilow. Acting experience includes performing in "Hellcab" at Famous Door and playing various battered women seeking justice for Circuit Court public service videos and training seminars. In the education field, she has written curriculum for The Fairy Trials and other court projects, and she served on a citywide panel to develop the Arts Education Standards for in the Chicago Public Schools. Her book Process, co-written with Michael Gellman is being published by Northwestern University Press.