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| x Arthur Laurents |
Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing...
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| x John Caird |
John Caird FRSE (December 15, 1820 – July 30, 1898) was a theologian, born at Greenock and educated at Greenock Academy and Glasgow University (MA 1845). He entered the Church of Scotland, of which he became one of the most eloquent preachers.
After...
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| x Robert Lewis |
Robert Lewis (March 16, 1909 – November 23, 1997) was an American actor, director, teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.
In addition to his accomplishments on Broadway and in Hollywood, Lewis' greatest and...
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| x George Abbott |
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.
Abbott was born in Forestville, New York,...
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Geoffrey Richard Holder (born 1 August 1930) is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad of African descent, Holder is a Tony-award winning stage...
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| x Dan Fields |
Currently living in New York City, Dan Fields (Director/Producer) was Resident Director of Disney￢ﾀﾙs Broadway production of The Lion King, where he assisted director Julie Taymor from its inception. In Seattle, as Resident Director at Annex Theatre...
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| x Hal Prince |
Harold Smith "Hal" Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any...
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| x Adrian Noble | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
Adrian Keith Noble (born Chichester, Sussex, England, 19 July 1950) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
After he graduated from Chichester High School, he...
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| x Abe Burrows |
Abe Burrows (December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage. He won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize.
Born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, Burrows graduated from New Utrecht High...
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| x Gillian Lynne |
Gillian Barbara Lynne (née Pyrke), CBE, born (1926-02-20) 20 February 1926 (age 86), is a British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director, television director and choreographer noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with the...
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| x Gower Champion |
Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.
Champion was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of John W. Champion and Beatrice Carlisle. He was raised in Los Angeles,...
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| x Ron Field |
Ronald Field (1934 – February 6, 1989) was an American choreographer, director, and dancer.
Field was born in New York City, New York where he made his Broadway debut as a child in Lady in the Dark (1941) with Gertrude Lawrence. He later danced in...
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| x Des McAnuff |
Desmond McAnuff (born 19 June 1952) is the American-Canadian former artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and director of musical theatre of such Broadway productions as Big River, The Who's Tommy and Jersey Boys.
Born in Princeton...
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| x Jerry Mitchell |
Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer.
Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell later moved to St. Louis where he pursued his acting, dancing and directing career in theatre. He graduated from the Fine Arts college at Webster...
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| x Rob Marshall |
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Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002...
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| x Martin Charnin |
Martin Charnin (born November 24, 1934) is an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director and lyricist of the hit musical Annie.
Born in New York City, he graduated from The High School of...
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| x Noël Coward |
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Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic,...
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| x Trevor Nunn | Oklahoma 1998 West End |
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre, film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket....
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| x Jerome Robbins |
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Peter Pan |
Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His...
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| x Joshua Logan |
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Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer.
Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas, the son of Susan (née Nabors) and Joshua Lockwood Logan. When he was three years old his father...
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| x James Lapine |
James Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and...
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| x Joe Mantello | Wicked |
Joseph Mantello (born 27 December 1962) is an American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of Angels in...
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| x George Faison |
George Faison (born December 21, 1945) is an African-American dancer and choreographer.
Faison was born in Washington, D.C. where he studied dance with the Jones-Haywood Capitol Ballet and Carolyn Tate of Howard University while attending Dunbar...
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| x Michael Bennett |
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Twigs |
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven....
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| x Michael Blakemore | Copenhagen (2000 Broadway) |
Michael Howell Blakemore OBE (born 18 June 1928) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. In 2000 he became the only individual to win Tony Awards for best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate....
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| x Richard Maltby, Jr. |
Richard Eldridge Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine, sometimes in...
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| x Martin Scorsese |
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Martin Charles Scorsese ( /skɔrˈsɛsɛ/; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in...
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| x Joseph Anthony |
Joseph Anthony (May 24, 1912 – January 20, 1993) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film Hat, Coat, and Glove and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 production of Mary of Scotland. On five...
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| x Howard Lindsay |
Howard Lindsay (March 29, 1889 — February 11, 1968) was an American theatrical producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor. He is best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of Lindsay and Crouse, and for his performance,...
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| x Robert B. Sinclair |
Robert B. Sinclair was a film and television director.
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| x Tom Moore | Grease | ||
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| x Richard E. T. White | Hedda Gabler | ||
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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? |
David Esbjornson is an award-winning director and producer who has worked throughout the United States in regional theatres and on Broadway, and has established strong and productive relationships with some of the profession’s top playwrights,...
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| x Karel Reisz |
Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema.
Reisz was a Jewish refugee, one of the 669...
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| x Deryk Mendel | Spiel (world premiere) | ||
| x Charles Nelson Reilly |
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The Gin Game |
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in theater, movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match...
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| x Lisa Jean Murphy | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Kirk Wilson | The Strip | ||
| x Moss Hart | Camelot (Original Broadway Production) |
Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and theatre director, best known for his interpretations of musical theater on Broadway.
Hart was born in New York City and grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “a...
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| x George Quick | Insignificant Others | ||
| x David Garcia | Insignificant Others | ||
| x Gregory Mosher | Boy's Life |
Gregory Mosher is a long time director and producer of stage productions – at the Lincoln Center and Goodman Theatres, on and off-Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre, and in the West End. He is also a film and television director, producer, and...
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| x Cate Blanchett |
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? |
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (English pronunciation: /ˈblɑːntʃ.ət/; born 14 May 1969) is an Academy Award–winning Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth,...
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| x George Bernard Shaw |
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Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly...
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