Joe Spence is a graduate and former house team member with teaching or coaching experience at the Second City Hollywood, iO West, Nerdist School, and ComedySportz LA, and has also studied at UCB and with Groundlings founder Gary Austin. Joe is also a member of the teaching staff at Gary Spatz’s The Playground, the only bonded young actor’s conservatory in Los Angeles where, until recently, was in charge of the teen acting program. Joe has been teaching improvisers from age pre-K to post-90 for almost twenty years and enjoys the ability of the art form to take an artist places they never knew they could go.