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Mike Nichols
American director Mike Nichols in 2010. He was one of only a few people to have ever earned an EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony over the course of his career.
Mike Nichols and Elaine May met at the University of Chicago in the early 1950s.12
After Nichols returned to Chicago following his acting studies in New York, he and May became founding members of the pioneering improvisational comedy troupe known as The Compass Players, which also included Paul Sills, Shelley Berman, and Barbara Harris. Their partnership as improvisers eventually led them to move to New York City in 1957, where they established themselves as a successful comedy duo.123