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Creative coaching. Practical training.
Find your starting point.
Led by Chicago professionals Kyle Slagell and Nicole Perez. Practical coaching for artists, teams, workplaces, and individuals.
No theatre background required. Just something you want to work on.
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For artists & creative groups
Try something new or strengthen what you already do.
Improv Team Coaching
A fresh set of eyes on your team’s work.
Two hours. One shared goal. Exercises, scene work, and a useful next-step plan for 4–8 adults.
Improv Workshops
Build listening, character, and confidence through practice. First-timers and returning players welcome.
Public dates forthcoming. Private groups welcome.
Custom Rehearsal Plans
Walk into rehearsal with a plan built for your team: exercises, timing, and prompts, plus a check-in after you try it.
Voiceover Basics
Get comfortable behind the mic. Explore natural reads, script interpretation, direction, and recording foundations.
In development
The Business of Voiceover
Map your next steps: demos, agents, auditions, clients, rates, and running your voiceover business.
In development
For workplaces & professionals
Practical help for making work feel less like work.
New-Hire Training Review
Help new employees become confident, capable contributors. Review the first 30 days of onboarding, identify gaps, and leave with clear training priorities, an improved outline, and manager checkpoints.
Training Design & Development
Turn what your team knows into training people can use: clear materials, practical exercises, and a plan for delivery.
Ready for Your Next Role
Prepare for more responsibility. Practice expectations, communication, and the conversations that come with leading others.
Difficult Customer Conversations
Practice staying clear and steady when a customer conversation gets difficult. Work through realistic scenarios and useful responses.
Interview Preparation & Practice
Tell your story with more confidence. Rehearse answers, sharpen examples, and get specific feedback before the real conversation.
Practice. Feedback. A next step.
Bring a goal, a challenge, or an idea. We’ll shape a session around it, make room to try things, and leave you with something useful to carry forward.
Meet your instructors
Kyle Slagell
Improv, coaching & professional development
For nearly a decade, Kyle has coached and served as artistic director of Las Tinas, a Chicago Latinx ensemble performing fully improvised telenovelas. He also built companywide onboarding and employee training at JC Licht. His coaching connects clear goals, practical rehearsal, and useful feedback.
Nicole Perez
Voiceover performance & business
A Chicago voice actor and improviser with more than a decade behind the mic, including work for McDonald’s and the National Park Foundation. Nicole is developing courses in voiceover performance and the business of getting started.
“From day one, his ability to build a cohesive, trusting team culture has allowed us to have longevity. He possesses an incredibly astute creative mind, always tracking exactly where we can expand and inventing the exact, targeted exercises we need to elevate our format.”
Melina Barona, Las Tinas
Coached by Kyle for nearly a decade
Las Tinas has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Telemundo, and WGN.
Let’s find a useful place to start.
Tell us your goal, group size, and timing. Not sure which offering fits? Start there.
Before you book
We agree scope, fees, format, location, and any travel or room costs in advance. An inquiry carries no commitment.
Open to people outside Narrow Victory
No membership required. Artist Roster and Development Nights are separate opportunities; buying a Studio session is never a requirement to take part.