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Sam Wasson

1981-present · Los Angeles, CA

Cultural historian and author of Improv Nation (2017) — the single most comprehensive history of American improvisational theater.

Known for

Author of Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art (2017).
Other books include Fosse (2013), The Big Goodbye (2020), Paul on Mazursky (2011).
Improv Nation is the most cited modern secondary source on Compass/Second City/iO/UCB history.

Connected to

People

Viola Spolin Paul Sills Del Close Bernard Sahlins

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Wasson
https://www.samwasson.com/improv-nation

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