Improv
- Improvisation for the Theater by Viola Spolin (Chicago)
- Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern, Del Close, & Kim “Howard” Johnson (Chicago)
- Art by Committee: A Guide to Advanced Improvisation (with CD) by Charna Halpern (Chicago)
- Impro by Keith Johnstone
- Improv Comedy by Andy Goldberg, with foreword by John Ritter
- Improvising Better by Jimmy Carrane and Liz Allen (Chicago)
- Improv Wisdom by Patricia Ryan Madson
- Improv-ise: Scene from the Inside Out by Mick Napier (Chicago)
- Group Improvisation: The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games. by Peter Gwinn, with additional material by Charna Halpern (Chicago)
- Process: An Improviser’s Journey by Mary Scruggs and Michael Gellman (Chicago)
- Long-form Improvisation and the Art of Zen by Jason Chin (Chicago)
- The Second City Almanac of Improvisation by Anne Libera (Chicago)
- Free Play: Improvisation in Art and Life by Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Musical Improv Comedy: Creating Songs in the Moment by Michael Pollock
Acting
- The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You’re Not by John Vorhaus
- Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
- Acting, The First Six Lessons by Richard Boleslavsky
- The Actor at Work by Robert Benedetti
- Act of Being by Charles Marowitz
- Audition by Michael Shurtleff
- Speaking Clearly by Modisett and Luter
- Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner
- Speaking Clearly: The Basics of Voice and Articulation by Noah F. Modisett & James G. Luter, Jr.
- Stanislavsky by Sonja Moore
Other
- Comedy is a Serious Business by Harry Ruskin
- The Second City by Sheldon Patinkin (Chicago)
- Days and Nights at The Second City by Bernie Sahlins (Chicago)
- Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of the Second City and the Compass Players by Jeffrey Sweet (Chicago)
- Live from New York by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller
- SCTV: Behind the Scenes by Dave Thomas
- 365 Sketches by Joe Janes (Chicago)
- Guru: My Days with Del Close by Jeff Griggs (Chicago)
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