Charna Halpern

ThinkersBorn 1952Improvisation teacher

Works

  • Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (with Del Close and Kim Howard Johnson), 1994

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Known for

She co-founded the ImprovOlympic (iO) theater in Chicago with Del Close and, with him, adapted and taught the Harold, the long-form improvisation Close developed. Truth in Comedy, written with Close and Kim Howard Johnson, is the manual of that approach.

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