Ed Greenberg's Biography

Ed Greenberg is the son of a career Air Force officer. As a child he attended ten different elementary schools and, therefore, was introduced early to the art of improvisation.

He survived and attended the University of California, Berkeley. One day he read a notice in the San Francisco Chronicle that improvisation workshops were being held at "The Committee", San Francisco's hip and popular improvisational theater. Ed went to the workshop, met its leader and Committee director, Del Close, and that afternoon a creative relationship and deep friendship began which lasted until Del's death on March 4, 1999.

Del hired Ed into The Committee company, where he worked for three years both in San Francisco, and later at The Committee's Los Angeles show. There he continued his career as a movie, television and voice-over actor. Ed's love for improvisation and Del's introduction to Second City owner Bernie Sahlins, led to a stint as director of The Second City in Chicago in the mid-1980's. (Del claimed he was the only person he ever knew who was fired from a job and allowed to hand-pick his successor.)

In the last decade Ed has worked as a producer, writer and director in television, and as a voice-over actor, doing hundreds of radio and television campaigns. He has taught improvisational acting at UCLA Extension, co-run workshops in long-form improv with Del Close and taught Acting for Directors at the Directors' Guild of America. Currently, in addition to his work as Chief Improvocateur at ImproWorks, he teaches acting as an Adjunct Professor at USC School of Cinema-Television.