In the wake of Shelly Berman's successful sit-down-on-a-stool vignettes, it was inevitable that a male/female duo would emerge from the pack mining similar turf, and the team of Nichols May embodied it perfectly. Eventually splitting up by the early '60s, Elaine May became involved with the Broadway theater crowd while Nichols carved out a successful career as a motion picture director. ~ Cub Koda, Rovi