Since she was little she liked theater and her first approach to improv was at university. She studied at Boston College where she belonged to the improv group. Later he deepened his training in improvisation and comedy with Charna Halpern in ImprovOlympic and later in The Second City in Chicago where she met Tina Fey. He founded the improv company Upright Citizens Brigade in Chicago. In 1996 the group moved to New York where they started a small theater. The success came when his show became a 30 minutes weekly on the Comedy Central television network. To read the entire history of UCB I recommend reading the book High-status Characters, in which journalist Brian Raferty interviews the company’s cast to outline its history. From 2001 to 2008, Poehler was a main cast member of Saturday Night Live, where she again met Tina Fey. Together they would later collaborate on some films. She has been nominated for multiple awards for her work on SNL and the Parks and Recreation series. For the first she won an Emmy (along with Tina Fey) and for the second work she won the Golden Globe in 2014. In film and television she has done a…

El 11 de marzo de 2023 se apagó la vida de una de las personas más importantes en la impro como la conocemos actualemente: Keith Johnstone, un hombre cuya pasión por el teatro y la creatividad ha dejado una huella indeleble en el mundo escénico. Nació en Devon, Inglaterra, hace 90 años, en la primavera de 1933. Desde muy joven, Keith demostró un talento innato para contar historias y transportar a las personas a mundos imaginarios. Su imaginación desbordante y su espíritu inquisitivo lo llevaron a explorar nuevos territorios en el teatro, revolucionando la forma en que se aborda la improvisación y la actuación. A lo largo de su vida, Keith Johnstone ha sido un verdadero pionero en su campo. F Fue profesor en Reino Unido, en 1956 se incorporó al Royal Court Theatre donde se convirtió en lector de obras, director y profesor de teatro. ue un visionario audaz que desafió las convenciones teatrales establecidas y se atrevió a experimentar con nuevas formas de creación escénica y allí desarrolló el corpus de su trabajo sobre la impro. También allí fundó la primera compañía de improvisación de Gran Bretaña: The Theatre Machine. En 1972, aceptó una invitción de la Universidad…

Spolin was born in Chicago in 1906 as Viola Mills, the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She belonged to a family in which games were common and they liked to act and laugh. At 18 she began studying with sociologist Neva Boyd at Hull House, a shelter for the youth of immigrant and poor families from the depressed neighborhoods of Chicago. At Hull House there was a Recreational Training group (what we now know as social services), where Spolin learned about group work. Boyd believed in play as a pillar of learning and socialization, so her training program included storytelling, dance, drama, art, and group play. Boyd, a leader in progressive education movements, had compiled a vast collection of non-competitive story-making games. So Spolin discovered in them how the game made it possible to create theatrical pieces, which were later performed. After finishing high school, Spolin married Wilmer Siverberg (who changed her last name to Sills), with whom she had two sons: Paul (who would found The Second City) and William. After her divorce she joined with other divorced women to create The Educational Playroom. In 1939, Neva Boyd hired Spolin as a drama teacher at the Works Progress Administration Recreation…