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February 25, 2001
de Maat obituaries and memorial services
The Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Reader have published obituaries for Martin de Maat. And New York memorial services have been announced: Sunday, March 11, 2 PM at Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, New York. No reservations needed.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:00 PM
February 20, 2001
Gelman interviewed about de Maat
Chicago public radio WBEZ interviewed Second City's Michael Gelman about Martin de Maat on the Friday, Feb. 16 Eight Forty-Eight. (Fast forward to 1:07:00.)
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:01 PM
de Maat memorial
Second City has announced:
A public memorial celebrating the life of Martin de Maat, improvisation instructor and Artistic Director of The Second City Training Center, will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2 PM at The Second City Theatres, 1616 N. Wells Street, Chicago. Martin taught improvisation to thousands of actors at Second City, Columbia College and Omega Institute, among others. He passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 15 in New York.
Similar memorial events in New York and Los Angeles are being planned for a later date. Details on those are forthcoming.
In lieu of flowers, Martin's family has requested that donations in his memory be made to Rivington House, 45 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002.
No reservation needed.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:00 PM
February 15, 2001
Dr. Martin de Maat dies
At about 9 am this morning, Dr. Martin de Maat passed away peacefully among friends and family at the Cabrini Medical Center in New York City due to complications from pneumonia. Dr. de Maat was a respected teacher of improvisation. He began his study of improvisation at the age of nine with Viola Spolin and was most recently the Artistic Director of the Second City Training Program. Second City's press release.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:00 PM
February 10, 2001
Share your Stories
Milo Shapiro is collecting improvisation stories to write a book.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:00 PM
February 8, 2001
Second to None on Video
The PBS documentary, Second to None, covering the creation of the Second City Mainstage show "Paradigm Lost" (the same process covered by Mick Napier's on-line journal) , is now available from Amazon.com and at the Second City Chicago gift shop.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:00 PM
Lifegame on TNN
TNN (which is now "The National Network") has announced an original series due this summer for a six-week run: Lifegame, based on an off-Broadway production of the Keith Johnstone show in which actors improvise the life story of a real person.
Posted by Fuzzy at 11:59 AM
February 1, 2001
More Journals
Sammy Tamimi is hard at work on becoming Improvisor-Journal-Central, with the addition of on-line journals by Chicago improvisor Ally Stinchfield and now-Boston resident Ed O'Rourke to the Monologues section of Improv411.
Also, Bill Byrne, newly of Chicago, has a Anchower-esque journal of his experiences taking classes at the ImprovOlympic.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:02 PM
IO 20th
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the ImprovOlympic and the theater is planning to mark the occasion with two nights of special shows on August 3 and 4.
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:00 PM