University of Chicago. Off-Off Campus. Records 1986-2008

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University of Chicago. Off-Off Campus. Records 1986-2008

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Off-Off Campus is a student improvisation theater group founded at the University of Chicago in 1986. The Records include administrative files, advertising and written short scenes.

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Sahlins, Bernard

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Kotis, Greg

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Auburn, David, 1969-

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Off- Off Campus is the second oldest continuously running student improvisation theater troupe in the country, with the first generation of actors dating back to 1986. Improvisational and sketch comedy first started at the University of Chicago in the 1950’s as a group of students formed the Compass players on campus, which in 1959 became The Second City. In 1986, U of C Alum and Second City co-founder Bernie Sahlins (A.B. ’43) returned the University campus in order to begin a sout...