Comedic Directing Workshop for Adults

Sunday February 23 2025, 11—5 p.m.

This crash course will cover many different aspects of directing improv, sketch, and on-camera comedy. 

Anthony will share insights and exercises that will be helpful for those starting their directing career and those who have been doing it for a while but want to continue honing their craft.

This fast-paced workshop is tailored to give you hands-on exercises and opportunities to explore, discuss, and get guidance on the directing challenges that have come up for you, getting you ready to tackle your next projects.

BIO

Anthony LeBlanc works at Nickelodeon/Paramount doing talent development and as an on-set acting coach on many hit shows such as The Reboot of All That,  The Really Loud House, and Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan. He acted as Interim Executive Producer of The Second City in 2020. Previously, LeBlanc served as an Artistic Director for The Second City Inc. and was a part-time faculty member at Columbia College Chicago in the Comedy Studies Program. 

Anthony is a Second City alum who wrote and performed in two original Chicago Mainstage revues, Taming of the Flu and the Jeff Award-nominated America: All Better!. He has been a teacher and resident director for Second City, directing several resident stage and theatrical productions in Chicago and Washington, D.C., including The Winner ... of Our Discontent (Chicago Mainstage), Soul Brother, Where Art Thou? (The Second City e.t.c.), Generation Gap at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Helen Hayes-nominated Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains) at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. And Independently including The Magic Negro and Other Blackity Blackness as Told by an African-American Man Who Also Happens to be Black at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. 

A native of Beaumont, Texas, Anthony holds a degree in Computer Science and Physics from Loyola University New Orleans. 

Anthony is an autistic Blerd dedicated to promoting Neurodiversity and DEI in comedy.