[2] Players Workshop was also one of Chicago's largest family entertainment production companies, producing original plays and musicals for The Children's Theater of The Second City for over 30 years.
[3] The production arm of Players Workshop also produced shows for The Body Politic, Candlelight Dinner Theater, Six Flags, Bristol Renaissance Faire and Taste of Chicago.
In 1981 Josephine Forsberg hired David Shepherd to teach select students at The Players Workshop his new method of improv competition games.
The Improvisational Olympiad continued to be performed at The Players Workshop for over a year before PW alum, Charna Halpern moved it to its own space in 1983.
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