The Improv Director
The person who directs a scripted-improv production — a show with set beats, loose structure, and nightly improvisation inside it (common at Second City revues).
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- At Second City, directors like Betty Thomas, Jeff Michalski, and Mick Napier shaped which scenes from nightly improv sets made it into a revue.
- Different craft from coaching a Harold team — the director is also an editor, selecting material from weeks of improv rehearsals.
- Del Close directed Second City in the 1970s; his insistence on longform thinking inside sketch work is a direct legacy of that role.
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