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Randy Fertel, PhD, has studied improvisation across the arts for 50 years and is the author of the award-winning A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisation (Spring Journal Books, 2015). A New Orleans native, he is founder and creative director of Improv Conference New Orleans: A Festival of Ideas (ImprovConfNOLA.com).

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