Birth Name:

Viola Spolin

Female

Birth Date:

Wed, Nov 07, 1906

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

117

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

14°

Sco

25'

About Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 — November 22, 1994) was an American theatre academic, educator and acting coach. She is considered an important innovator in 20th century American theater for creating directorial techniques to help actors to be focused in the present moment and to find choices improvisationally, as if in real life. These acting exercises she later called Theater Games and formed the first body of work that enabled other directors and actors to create improvisational theater. Her book Improvisation for the Theater, which published these techniques, includes her philosophy and her teaching and coaching methods, and is considered the "bible of improvisational theater". Spolin's contributions were seminal to the improvisational theater movement in the U.S. She is considered to be the mother of Improvisational theater. Her work has influenced American theater, television and film by providing new tools and techniques that are now used by actors, directors and writers.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Spolin Interview on YouTube

• The Spolin Center

• The Second City - With significant Flash Animations

• Audio of NPR Spolin program - with a link to the GiveandTake yahoo group

• Viola Spolin theatre ephemera, 1940s-1994 (bulk 1980s-1994), held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Viola Spolin: Sun 14 Scorpio, Moon 25 Cancer, Mercury 7 Sagittarius, Venus 14 Sagittarius, Mars 5 Libra, Jupiter 10 Cancer, Saturn 8 Pisces, Uranus 5 Capricorn, Neptune 12 Cancer, Pluto 23 Gemini, Sun Trine Neptune, Mercury Square Saturn, Sun Trine Jupiter, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Mercury Sextile Mars, Mercury Semi Sextile Uranus, Venus Quincunx Neptune, Mars Quincunx Saturn, Mars Square Uranus, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Jupiter Conjunct Neptune, Saturn Sextile Uranus, Saturn Trine Neptune

Categories related to Viola Spolin: American stage actresses, People from Chicago, November 7 births, Actresses from Chicago, Brandeis University faculty, 1994 deaths, Drama teachers, American acting coaches, 1906 births, Works Progress Administration workers, American acting theorists