Carol Bleackley Sills, director of Sills/Spolin Theater Works has been an influential force behind improvisational theater since she left Montreal and came to Chicago in 1959. Carol studied with Viola Spolin, acting as her editor since 1983. With her husband Paul Sills, they created many innovative theaters, beyond Paul’s The Compass, Playwrights Theater Club and The Second City. namely The Game Theater, Story Theater, The Body Politic, Century Hall, The Learning Theater and Sills & Co. Carol and her daughters present workshops at the Wisconsin Theater Game Center and other places nationwide. She is a painter and arts educator.
You can learn more about Carol Sills at: www.paulsills.com/sillsspolin-theater-works/
Carol studied with Viola Spolin, acting as her editor since 1983. With her husband Paul Sills, they created many innovative theaters, beyond Paul’s The Compass, Playwrights Theater Club and The Second City. namely The Game Theater, Story Theater, The Body Politic, Century Hall, The Learning Theater and Sills & Co. Carol and her daughters present workshops at the Wisconsin Theater Game Center and other places nationwide. She is a painter and arts educator.
You can learn more about Carol Sills at: www.paulsills.com/sillsspolin-theater-works/
Learn more about Carol Sills
https://www.paulsills.com/sillsspolin-theater-works/
More about Story Theatre and link to purchase Paul Sills “Story Theatre, Four Shows”. Read Carol’s Design Chapter and games by Viola.
https://www.paulsills.com/biography/story-theater/
Read more about Paul Sills contribution to Improvisational Theatre at
https://www.secondcity.com/people/paul-sills
https://www.paulsills.com/2016/10/photos-2016-story-theater-intensive/
Photos from the 2016 Story Theater Intensive with Carol Bleackley Sills
Videos of Carol Sills
Ed Asner and Carol Sills Discuss Playwrights Theatre Club, Paul Sills, and Viola Spolin
SPOLIN-IST – Carol Sills on Spolin Improvisation – I