Anne Libera: Director of Comedy Studies and coordinator for the B.A. degree in Comedy Writing and Performance at Columbia College Chicago, a unique collaboration with The Second City and the first degree of its kind in the United States. She has worked with The Second City since 1986 and served as Executive Artistic Director of The Second City Training Centers . Her book, The Second City Almanac of Improvisation is published by Northwestern University Press. She directed multiple original revues and touring productions for The Second City in Chicago, Europe, and at sea on NCL. Other directing credits include Stephen Colbert's one­man show Describing a Circle.