Charna Halpern

Charna Halpern
Born	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Improvisation teacher/writer
Years active	1980–present

Charna Halpern is a co-founder of the ImprovOlympic, now known as The iO. She was born and raised on the North Side of Chicago. In 1984, with partner Del Close, she began teaching The Harold to many students in the Chicago theatre community. She and Close co-authored the book Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation with editor Kim "Howard" Johnson in 1994.^[1] In 2005, she penned the book, Art by Committee.

An interview with Charna on BLACKOUTpresents: Radio

An interview with Charna about Del Close on the The Poor Choices Show

References

1. ^ Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). Truth in Comedy. ISBN 9781566080033. 

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