Talk:Josephine Forsberg

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Josephine Forsberg is a historic figure, a writer, director and teacher who launched the careers of some of America's biggest stars (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Betty Thomas, Bonnie Hunt). Josephine was also a maverick woman, struggling to not be wiped off the map by the more dominant men in her field. Even the Wikipedia articles do not yet discribe her in the powerful way that they should. Before Jo, women in comedy were either sex objects for men or bawdy man haters. Joepehine helped to change this with her sweat and blood. She is one of the last living people from her generation of improv innovators (Paul Sills, Viola Spolin, Avery Schrienber, Martin deMaat, and Del Close are all dead).

Josephine should have a page in Wikipedia so that the people who are using this vast storehouse of imformation to research the amazing period of 1959 through the late 1990s, the boom of Chicago improv, they will be able to find Jo in her rightful place in history.

Improv for the Giants
The section on Forsberg teaching improv to the Giants frames the work as being to help the Giants gain an edge in football. Actually, the visit was to help the players with the community service work they did, adding sketch work to the presentations they did on drugs and violence for school kids. The link given in the article doesn't pull up a story, but this makes the purpose of the visit pretty clear: http://origin-www.giants.com/news/off_the_field/story.asp?story_id=24399 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.240.142.106 (talk) 20:40, 3 October 2011 (UTC)