Liz Joynt Sandberg is a comedy writer, performer, director, and educator based in Chicago. In addition to her work at DePaul as an Assistant Professor and head of the Comedy Arts Program, she also works as a Lead Learning Designer and Facilitator with Second City Works and in her own consultancy, teaching clients like Harvard Business School, BMW, BMO Harris, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Chicago Public Schools, Swing Left, Indivisible, and others to leverage an improvisational mindset to solve real-world problems. She's toured nationally and internationally as a comedic performer and educator (The Second City, Hoopla London, Boom Chicago Amsterdam, iO, The Annoyance, The Revival and others), and has written for The Second City Network, The Huffington Post, Rebellious Magazine, and Forbes. Her essay "Hummingbird" appears in the anthology Listen to Your Mother (Putnam 2015). She previously served as the Associate Director of Learning for The Second City Works, and on the faculty of Columbia College and The Second City Training Center in the conservatory program, improvisation, writing, sketch comedy, musical improv, and comedy theory/the psychology of comedy. She currently sits on the comedic think tank The Laughing Matters Council (Ruder Finn), and performs, directs, and produces with Beverly (iO Chicago), Baby Wine (Annoyance), Phony Award-Winning Musical with Laura Hall (iO Chicago), and with her sketch comedy duo (Jeff Bouthiette and Liz Joynt Sandberg), most recently NONE OF THIS MATTERS SO STEAL (Boom Chicago Amsterdam, Annoyance Chicago). She loves playing adult beginner tennis, and her family is thrilled that she is currently learning to play the drums.