Watch: Staffers leap from the Hill to the improv stage

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Watch: Staffers leap from the Hill to the improv stage

Heard on the Hill crashes improv rehearsal with a few staffers

Sam Schifrin and Geoff Corey, center, dive into an improv scene on Monday. Washington Improv Theater Executive Director Mark Chalfant is seen at right. (Thomas McKinless/CQ Roll Call)

Posted August 1, 2019 at 9:38am

Heard on the Hill reporter Kathryn Lyons caught up with current and former staffers to talk about their not-so-secret second life off the Hill: as players in the D.C. improv scene.

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