This volume brings together a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating work as an ensemble. Both handbook and history, Ensemble-Made Chicago includes background on each company, detailed instructions for executing performance and writing exercises, and an overview of the politics shaping the development of ensemble-created work in Chicago.
Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.
