Founding Director of The Second City; creator of Story Theater
Board member of
The Second City, Founded or co-founded: Playwrights Theater Club, Compass Players, The Second City, Game Theater, Story Theater, Sills & Co., Paul Sills' Wisconsin Theater Game Center, The Parents School
Spouse(s)
Dorothea May Strauss Horton (1929 – 1998; divorced), Barbara Harris (1955 – 1958; divorced), Carol Bleackley Sills (1960 – 2008; his death)
Children
David Sills, Rachel Sills, Polly Sills, Aretha Sills, Neva Sills
Parent(s)
Viola Spolin and Wilmer Silverberg
Awards
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.
secondcity.com. "PaulSills' Story Theatre". www.ibdb.com. Sills, Paul (2000). Story Theater: Four Shows Adapted for the Stage by PaulSills. New York, N...
the Second City in Chicago in the mid- to late 1950s, through her son, PaulSills. He was the founding director of the Compass Players which led to the...
and PaulSills, it is considered to be the first improvisational theater in the United States. The Compass Players, founded by David Shepherd and Paul Sills...
was $1.50 (equivalent to $16 in 2023). Sahlins and Sills flipped burgers in the kitchen. Sahlins, Sills, and Howard Alk had founded the theater, in 1959...
Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his work on Broadway in PaulSills' Story Theatre and two Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Performances...
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City. Her son, PaulSills, along with David Shepherd, started The Compass Players. Following the demise of the Compass Players, PaulSills began The Second...
major to English Literature. In college, he performed in plays such as PaulSills' Story Theatre, Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, and Harold Pinter's The Dumb...
known as a founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe with PaulSills and Howard Alk in 1959. Sahlins also opened the Second City Theatre in...
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). She was in the ensemble cast of PaulSills' Story Theatre and toured with Second City along with then-husband Richard...
roof." Lavin's last Broadway credit before she moved to Hollywood was in PaulSills' Story Theatre in 1971. In 1984, Lavin played the character of "The Mother"...
theater games as a method of training improvisational acting. Her son, PaulSills popularized improvisational theater, or IMPROV, by using Spolin's techniques...
member of the Compass Players, an improvisational comedy revue directed by PaulSills. He later joined the improvisational group Second City in Chicago. He...
York City founded by Master Teachers Mike Nichols, George Morrison and PaulSills in 1988. The school offered a unique, dual-track curriculum combining...
comedian in PaulSills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on...
City, training with improvisational theater teachers Viola Spolin and PaulSills, and in 1963 moved to San Francisco to co-found the improv troupe, The...
20th century by practitioners such as Joan Littlewood, Viola Spolin, PaulSills, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal. Theatre...
Compass Players, a predecessor to Chicago's Second City which included PaulSills, Del Close, Loretta Chiljian, and Nancy Ponder. Nichols dropped out of...
"Beverly Sills" if she won the contest (although she did not ultimately win). Sills sang "Romany Life" from Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller. Sills made...
two of the founding members of the Playwrights Theatre Club, along with PaulSills and David Shepard. Playwrights featured such budding stars as Mike Nichols...
Playwright's Theatre Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953 by PaulSills, David Shepherd and Eugene Troobnick. The theatre was noted for its original...
Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with director PaulSills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Public Theater at...
included May, Shelley Berman, Del Close, and Nancy Ponder, directed by PaulSills. In Chicago, he started doing improvisational routines with May, which...
eventually being introduced after one of his stage shows. The director, PaulSills, brought May to Nichols and said, "Mike, I want you to meet the only other...
two of the founding members of the Playwrights Theatre Club, along with PaulSills and David Shepard. Playwrights featured such budding stars as Mike Nichols...
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