Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins is an American writer, director and comedian best known as a founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe with Paul Sills and Howard Alk in 1959. Sahlins also opened the Second City Theatre in Toronto in 1973.
Sahlins graduated from University of Chicago in 1943. His brother is anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.
When Sahlins received an honorary doctorate from Columbia College Chicago in 2006, theatre department...
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Bernard Sahlins
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