Amy Seham (USA) is a director, author, professor, and improviser whose book, Whose Improv Is It, Anyway? is a ground-breaking study of race, gender and power in Chicago improv-comedy. Her writing on improv has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies and in Radical Acts: Theatre and Pedagogies of Change. In the last 20 years, Seham has created improv workshops for social workers and professional actors in India, college students in China, and children in the Dominican Republic. She has offered classes at Second City in Toronto, Fringe Benefits in LA, and the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, taught for Funny Woman Festivals in Minneapolis and Chicago, and given workshops for colleges and universities across the country. Her 2016 keynote address for the Mellon Foundation Series on Comedy and Gender at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, provides the foundation for a new book on improv for the 21st century (Working title: Yes, and . . . Me Too!) to be published by Northwestern UP. Seham was a co-founder/performer in the improv troupe, Snazz ‘n’ Guffaw, which flourished in the late 1980s and early 1990s in New Haven, Connecticut. She then earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her dissertation drew on that experience. Now a Professor of Theatre and Dance at Gustavus Adophus College in Minnesota, she teaches directing, playwriting, and performance—with a focus on improvisation, Theatre of the Oppressed, and devised theatre.