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- Elaine_May abstract "Elaine May (born April 21, 1932) is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian. She made her initial impact in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols, performing as Nichols and May. After her duo with Nichols ended, May subsequently developed a career as a director and screenwriter. She has been twice nominated for an Academy Award, for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and the Nichols-directed Primary Colors (1998), but remains best known perhaps for her 1971 black comedy A New Leaf, in which she also starred. In 1996, she reunited with Nichols to write the screenplay for The Birdcage, directed by Nichols.After studying acting with theater coach Maria Ouspenskaya in Los Angeles, she moved to Chicago in 1955 and became a founding member of the Compass Players, an improvisational theater group. May began working alongside Nichols, who was also in the group, and together they began writing and performing their own comedy sketches, which were enormously popular. In 1957 they both quit the group to form their own stage act, Nichols and May, in New York. Jack Rollins, who produced most of Woody Allen's films, said their act was \"so startling, so new, as fresh as could be. I was stunned by how really good they were.\"They performed nightly to mostly sold-out shows, in addition to making various TV and radio appearances. In their comedy act, they created satirical clichés and character types which made fun of the new intellectual, cultural, and social order that was just emerging at the time. In doing so, \"May cracked the stereotype of what roles a woman could play\", wrote Gerald Nachman, \"breaking through the psychological restrictions of playing comedy as a woman.\" Together, they became an inspiration to many younger comedians, including Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin. After four years, at the height of their fame, they decided to discontinue their act and took their careers in different directions, Nichols becoming a leading film director and May becoming primarily a screenwriter and playwright, along with acting and directing. Their relatively brief time together as comedy stars led New York talk show host Dick Cavett to call their act \"one of the comic meteors in the sky.\" Nachman noted that \"Nichols and May are perhaps the most ardently missed of all the satirical comedians of their era.\"May received the National Medal of Arts in 2012 for her lifetime contributions.".
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- Elaine_May birthDate "1932-04-21".
- Elaine_May birthName "Elaine Iva Berlin".
- Elaine_May birthPlace Philadelphia.
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- Elaine_May child Jeannie_Berlin.
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- Elaine_May partner Stanley_Donen.
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