Second City student Clare Austen-Smith was another woman who sent an email to Sheehan in March. “It took me 2 years to report being sexually harassed by Brian Posen — at the time, I had no idea that I could talk to anyone about this at Second City … so I tried to push it aside,” Austen-Smith said in an emailed statement to the Tribune. In 2014 she was a student in a coached ensemble, or a group of students coached by a Second City teacher to help them get used to performing onstage (the class at the time was held at Stage 773). “During one of our first rehearsals, we shared our occupations. At the time I was working for a sexual health education non-profit. When it came to my turn, I said, ‘I teach sex education on the south and west sides to high schoolers.’ I remember very clearly (Posen) stopped, turned to look at me, and yelled, ‘Wait — you’re a hot white girl teaching young ethnic boys about sex? How can they concentrate?!’ I remember the blood draining from my face and my skin started to crawl.”