Stacey Hallal

Stacey Hallal has been teaching, directing, and performing improv for over 24 years.
She trained at Chicago’s Second City, iO, Annoyance, and ComedySportz theaters. At
Second City, she also taught and assistant directed the main stage before moving to
Portland to open Curious Comedy Theater in 2008 where she has worked as Artistic
Director ever since.

She has performed and taught improv and sketch at over 150
festivals across North America, often working in duos with Joe Bill and Mark Sutton.
She is also the creator of Ruby Rocket, Private Detective, a cartoon, comic, and live
improvised show in which she has had the honor of performing with Marc Evan Jackson
(The Good Place, Brooklyn 99), Maribeth Monroe (The Good Place, Workaholics),
Stephnie Weir (MadTV), Amber Nash (Archer), Craig and Carla Cackowski, and soon
Colin Mochrie (Whose Line). She will be releasing Ruby Rocket as a podcast soon!
Stacey also founded and curates the All Jane Comedy Festival to promote and
celebrate women in comedy, as well as the Chroma Comedy Festival, with Artistic
Director Jon Carr, which showcases BIPOC performers in improv from across the U.S..