Ellen Stewart (born November 7, 1919 Alexandria, Louisiana), is an American theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club).
After many years working in New York as a fashion designer, in the early 1960s she created one of the most successful Off-Off-Broadway theatrical companies - La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In the next decades she became famous around the world, writing and directing an enormo...
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Ellen Stewart (born November 7, 1919 Alexandria, Louisiana), is an American theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club).
After many years working in New York as a fashion designer, in the early 1960s she created one of the most successful Off-Off-Broadway theatrical companies - La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In the next decades she became famous around the world, writing and directing an enormous body of pieces, exclusively based on music and dance, with international artists.
In 2007 she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in the field of Film and Theater.
In 2005 Tom O'Horgan presented Stewart with the Stewardship Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. This honor was bestowed to Stewart on behalf off her peers and fellow artists of the Off-Off-Broadway community "in recognition of her significant contributions to the Off-Off-Broadway community through service, support and leadership."
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