"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge

Karen Bell-Brege is a public speaker, comic, and author, as well as the founder and director for the highly acclaimed improvisational comedy troupe 'Totally Unrehearsed Theatre.' For the last 15 years, Bell-Brege has performed for, and trained hundreds of corporations, health care organizations, and associations.

Bell-Brege studied improv with the renowned Paul Sills (the founder of one of the first performing improv comedy troupes in Chicago) as well as at Second City in Chicago.  She was also the founder, director, performer and key trainer for improv at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle for 13 years.

As a member of the National Speakers Association, Bell-Brege gives keynotes and humor training workshops.  A former Communications Specialist for UAW-Chrysler, she is a Telly Award recipient for one of her video productions. Bell-Brege has worked in broadcasting as full-time announcer, and has toured nationally speaking for Working Woman magazine. She also does commercials and voice-overs and can be heard on WDFN Sportstalk am 1130 doing celebrity impressions, as well as on numerous computer games by Hasbro, Universal, and Scholastic, and for such corporations as AT&T, Dell, Enfamil.

She is also a published author of numerous children's books.

karenimprov@yahoo.com    248.890.5363