Hate Speech in the Audience Causes Chicago Cast Member to Call It Quits

by MICHAEL GIOIA

''Peter Kim, a performer at Second City, the famed improvisational comedy troupe in Chicago—a “dream job,” he says—has called it quits due to nightly hate heckling from audience members.

His departure comes on the heels of multiple exits from the company this month, including Second City senior staffers as well as performers in the stage revue A Red Line Runs Through It, according to a report earlier this month in the Chicago Tribune.

However, Kim took action by penning an article for Chicago Magazine on the reasons why he left, stating that audience members were not only heckling those onstage but fellow theatregoers in the audience as well...''