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Nancy Beckett "found" the Playwrights' Center building in the summer of '79 while on a lunch break at a hippie restaurant across the street. Currently living in Chicago, Beckett teaches comedy writing at Columbia College and Second City Training Center. Beckett's memoir, Life Lessons of a Sketch Doyenne, will be out in 2014.