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Theater Hall of Fame. Website. paulsills.com. Paul Sills (born Paul Silverberg; November 18, 1927 – June 2, 2008) was an American director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago 's The Second City .
Writer. Director. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Paul Sills is best remembered as Chicago's father of improvisation, the innovative co-founder/director of the celebrated Compass Players and Chicago's Second City improvisational comedy troupes.
Paul Sills. The late Paul Sills, whose mother was Viola Spolin, originated The Second City and Story Theater. He was co-founder of Playwrights Theatre Club, Compass, The Game Theater, Sills & Co., and the New Actors Workshop, a graduate level acting program in Manhattan begun in 1987 with colleagues Mike Nichols and George Morrison.
Story Theater. In the late 60s Second City founding director Paul Sills surprised the Chicago theater scene with a new art form. Players in street garb enacted tales from the oral tradition set to contemporary music on bare, dramatically-lit stages. By 1970 Paul Sills’ Story Theatre had won critical acclaim on both coasts.
Mini Bio. Paul Sills is best remembered as Chicago's father of improvisation, the innovative co-founder/director of the celebrated Compass Players and Chicago's Second City improvisational comedy troupes. Sills sought to teach the comedy acting techniques of improvisation instilled in him by his mother, Viola Spolin, who once taught creative ...
4. Juni 2008 · June 4, 2008. Paul Sills, a founder of the Second City theater company and the godfather of modern improvisational sketch comedy, died on Monday in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He was 80. The cause was...
7. Juni 2008 · Paul Sills, one of the founders of the Chicago-based improv group Second City, died this week. Scott Simon talks with Second City alumnus Harold Ramis about Sills' lasting impact on the world...
