Ellen Stewart

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... more

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