“Don't initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.”

—  Viola Spolin

Improvisation for the Theater 3rd Edition (1999), Paul Sills' Sayings of Viola Spolin, page xiii

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American academic and acting theorist 1906–1994

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