LETTERS

Inspirational Inclusion

n “Improv So White?” (March ’19): Back when I was writing (1978), I commented how few non-white performers there were in improv’s history. (The big and historic exception: in the early ’60s in New York, with a cast of five, three of whom were Black—Godfrey Cambridge, Al Freeman Jr., and Diana Sands. How’s for an ensemble?) People are often inspired to do what they see other people they identify with doing. Part of what encouraged more women to enter the field was the wave of great improvisationally was as strong as Second City’s mainstage show.