Rance Rizzutto does it.
Rance has been performing professionally since 1999. Living most of his life in Portland, OR that seemed like a good place to start. He’s started by doing improv with ComedySportz in Portland. This not only meant performing for their theater every weekend, but doing shows in remote locations for various colleges, companies, and events, sometimes for up to 1500 people. Through ComedySportz he has also provided corporate training and team building for many different businesses.
While still in Portland, Rance also joined Portland’s longest running sketch comedy troupe, The Third Floor and added sketch writing to his arsenal. Performing in their shows Double Fisted Shot Glass, Greatest Hits 3 & 4, and The Third Floor: The Musical led to bringing our sketch comedy to the Chicago Sketch Festival in 2003.
Chicago seemed pretty cool, both figuratively and literally since it was January, and two months later, Rance was living in there.
Since moving to Chicago Rance joined ComedySportz, Chicago, and has performed with various other improv venues such as iO Chicago (Johnny Roast Beef) and DSI (The Beatbox). With all the fantastic talent roaming the streets and theaters in this city it was only a matter of time until some of them formed up to do video sketches. Rance and friends became seven8nine, writing, filming and editing videos for fun, for festivals, or for contests. Rance even wrote and directed the winning video for AskMrVideo.com’s “My Day In 60 Seconds” contest.
In 2007 Rance and his lovely partner, Deanna Moffitt competed in the Dual Duel two-person improv contest. Their weapon of choice? A form they called The Silent Treatment. No words. Just silent improv to a random selection of music. It was such a fun and free form that it won the contest and have since performed The Silent Treatment in cities around the nation.
Not long after that Second City hired Rance to perform improv and sketch with their theatrical division aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL). He’s performed sketch and improv all over the seas. Caribbean, Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, and in late 2009, the Pacific Ocean…Hawaii. By the time he gets back from Hawaii he’ll have spent 1.5 years of his life aboard cruise ships.
Traveling with Second City also afforded Rance one of his favorite opportunities, sitting in with the Istanbul, Turkey improv group Istanbulimpro and singing about swearing with cultural awareness.
Most recently Rance has started down the path of stand-up comedy. He’ll be hitting that road hard when he comes back from Hawaii.
Rance can teach you improv.
Rance can host your event.
Rance can help build teamwork in your employees.
Rance can even take your headshots.
Rance Rizzutto does it.