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Josephine Forsberg

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Josephine Forsberg (28 January 1921 – 3 October 2011), ex-wife of film director Rolf Forsberg, was hired by Paul Sills and Viola Spolin to join the original Second City in 1959 as the female understudy and Spolin's teaching assistant. [1]

24 relations: Betty Thomas, Bill Murray, Charna Halpern, David Mamet, David Shepherd (producer), Del Close, Dudley Riggs, Eric Forsberg, George Wendt, Harold Ramis, Improvisational theatre, IO Theater, Keith Johnstone, Martin de Maat, New York Giants, Paul Sills, Robert Townsend (actor), Rolf Forsberg, Shelley Long, Teacher, The Players Workshop, The Second City, The Second City Training Center, Viola Spolin.

Betty Thomas

Betty Thomas (born Betty Lucille Nienhauser, July 27, 1947) is an American actress and director of television and motion pictures.

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Bill Murray

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer.

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Charna Halpern

Charna Halpern (born 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is a co-founder of the ImprovOlympic, now known as iO.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author.

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David Shepherd (producer)

David Shepherd (born 1924) is an American producer, director, and actor primarily noted for his work in improvisational theatre.

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Del Close

Del P. Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century.

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Dudley Riggs

Dudley Riggs (born 1932) is an improvisational comedian who created the Instant Theater Company in New York, which later moved to Minneapolis to become the Brave New Workshop (BNW) comedy troupe.

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Eric Forsberg

Eric Forsberg (born December 16, 1959) is the writer and director of the feature film Mega Piranha, as well as the writer of the feature film Snakes on a Train, one of the first mockbusters produced and released by The Asylum.

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George Wendt

George Robert Wendt III (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor.

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Harold Ramis

Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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IO Theater

iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago, with a former branch in Los Angeles called iO West.

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Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone (born February 22, 1933) is a British and Canadian pioneer of improvisational theatre, best known for inventing the Impro System, part of which are the Theatresports.

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Martin de Maat

Martin de Maat (January 12, 1949 – February 15, 2001) was a teacher and artistic director at The Second City in Chicago.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Paul Sills

Paul Silverberg (November 18, 1927 – June 2, 2008), better known as Paul Sills, was an American director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City.

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Robert Townsend (actor)

Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and writer.

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Rolf Forsberg

Rolf Forsberg (born July 12, 1924) is an American playwright, film and theater director.

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Shelley Long

Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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The Players Workshop

Created in 1971 by Josephine Forsberg, The Players Workshop was Chicago's only official school of improvisation for over a decade.

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The Second City

The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise, best known as the first ever on-going improvisational theater troupe based in Chicago.

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The Second City Training Center

The Second City Training Center was founded in the mid-1980s to facilitate the growing demand for workshops and instruction from the world famous The Second City theatre.

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Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 — November 22, 1994) was a theatre academic, educator and acting coach.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Forsberg

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