Search results
Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and actress. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before transitioning her career, regularly breaking the mold as a writer and director of several critically acclaimed films.
Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Jul 4, 2024 · Elaine May (born April 21, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director who is known for her sardonic wit, her caustic view of human nature, and her uncompromising fearlessness in all her work.
Jun 4, 2024 · Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due? A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career. By Richard Brody
May 29, 2024 · Elaine May is one of the key architects of American comedy; an alumna of the influential Kennedy-era underground scene in Chicago that gave us the O.G. “Saturday Night Live” cast and...
Jun 1, 2024 · Elaine May, Ahead of Her Time For the brilliant comedian, writer and director, Hollywood success was elusive. A new book offers perspective on the rocky career.
Jan 29, 2016 · Elaine May directs the American Masters tribute to Mike Nichols, with whom she became famous, in the late nineteen-fifties, as an improvisational comedy duo. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF EVERETT....
Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter, playwright, and actress. She has received numerous awards including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award.
Nov 4, 2019 · At 87, iconic comedian, actor, and director Elaine May is at last getting her due. But what took us so long?
Elaine May was a founding member of the improvisational theater groups the Compass Players and The Second City. She first came to national prominence with Nichols and May, her improvisational...
