The Alumni creative business talent - providing creative business talent for corporate events. Improvisational training and seminars, the alumni players improv troupe, custom sketch writing and performing, talent casting and performing, the art of business, custom muder mysteries, in concert. It's about experience! Nancy Marino Benn has been in the event business for over twenty years. In that time she has managed and produced high profile events for many of CanadaÆs business leaders. She was the producer for the Second City in Toronto as well as the architect & executive producer of the Second City's Business Communications division. Currently Nancy is a professor of Meeting & Events at Humber College.
Sandra Balcovske
Corporate Comedy Sketch Writer & Director
Sandra has written and directed for the stage, radio, television and video. In the corporate sphere, she has created many diverse events for various Fortune 500 companies including: IBM, The Royal Bank, Pfizer, Proctor and Gamble and Microsoft to name a few. Sandy is best known for her custom written stage shows which she writes and directs. She also writes training and educational videos, teambuilding events and themed evening concepts. Corporately Sandra writes sketches to inform, challenge and entertain and events to teach, explore and motivate. You should see how she can manipulate the lyrics to a popular song to fit the corporate culture of any company!
Sandra has directed eight shows for the Second City Mainstage. She has also worked as a director and collaborating writer on a number of original stage productions, from Linda Griffiths’ Game of Inches to The Drowsy Chaperone. Sandra has been nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for direction and won the ITVA's Golden Maple Award for a National Trust video.
Sandra graduated from the University of Lethbridge with BA in Philosophy and Drama, then spent two years in the Drama Department of the University of Alberta.