Kristen Studard is a Chicago improviser and comedian. She spent her formative years moving from one Chicago suburb to another, with a breif stint in Tennessee. In 1999 Kristen entered Bradley University where she was a founding member of the sketch and improv troupe The Roost. After graduating from Bradley in 2003 with a B. A. in Theatre Performance and Communications she moved to Scotland for a year where she made sandwiches and worked at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Kristen has been studying and performing improv in Chicago since late 2004. She is a graduate of the iO Training Center and the Second City Conservatory where she studied under and with some of the brightest minds in Chicago comedy.

Since moving to Chicago, she has been lucky to perform in several sketch shows and on several improv teams. Notably with The Geekouts in The Bestest Stuff at Chicago Sketchfest (2007) and as part of the 2007 cagematch finalists The MISSfits.

In September of 2007 Kristen won the second season of the comedy talent competition Impress These Apes a comedy talent competition where she had to perform a new challenge each week. At the end of each challenge she was given a score by a panel of comedians dressed as Apes. It’s scarier than it sounds.

Kristen can currently be seen performing with the improvised puppet show Felt, or the improvised Harold with her team Mike Helicopter - all at the iO Theatre, as well as with the all-girl supergroup Mountain Dawn!. Or you can catch her previewing material for her upcoming solo show all over Chicago.

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