Is it wrong I don't want to study for four years?

TheRealKEVP
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:35:50 +0000

Please remember that Second City is really the place that first used Spolin techniques to train actors. Every other place that uses Spolin or “improv” techniques has taken it directly or indirectly from Second City. Sometimes modifying them, of course.

Spolin invented the techniques to work with children with emotional problems, but Second City decided to try them with adult actors, and they discovered they really worked. (The history is a little more complicated, there were a couple of groups before Second City, but these were really pretty much the same people, just calling themselves a different name)

When I attended Columbia College Chicago, many of the faculty there were also faculty at Second City, I hope that is still the case.