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| Arthur Laurents |
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Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director.
Arthur Laurents was born and grew up in Brooklyn. His father was a lawyer. The family was Jewish. Laurents was attending Cornell...
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| John Caird | Person |
John Caird (December 15, 1820 - July 30, 1898), theologian, born at Greenock and educated at Glasgow, entered the Church of Scotland, of which he became one of the most eloquent preachers.
After being a minister in the country and in Edinburgh, he...
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| Robert Lewis | Person |
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...
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| George Abbott | Person |
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 seven decades.
Abbott was born in Forestville, New York...
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| Geoffrey Holder |
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Geoffrey Holder (b. August 1 1930) is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Holder is known for his towering 200-centimeter (six-foot, six-inch) height,...
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| Dan Fields | Person |
Currently living in New York City, Dan Fields (Director/Producer) was Resident Director of Disney’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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| Hal Prince | Film director |
Harold Smith 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 other...
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| Adrian Noble | Person |
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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| Abe Burrows |
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Abe Burrows (December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985), was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.
Born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, Burrows graduated New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and later attended both City...
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| Gillian Lynne |
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Gillian Lynne, CBE (b. February 20, 1926, Bromley, Kent, England) is a British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director , television director and choreographer noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with the iconic musicals Cats and...
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| Gower Champion |
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Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22 1919 – August 25 1980) was an American 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, California,...
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| Ron Field | Person |
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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| Des McAnuff | Film director |
Desmond McAnuff (born June 19, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois) is an American award-winning director of Broadway musical Big River and The Who's Tommy. He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of Broadway classics like Guys and Dolls, The Music...
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| Jerry Mitchell | Person |
Jerry Mitchell is an American director and choreographer.
Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell's early Broadway credits were as a dancer in The Will Rogers Follies and revivals of Brigadoon and On Your Toes.
Mitchell's first production as sole...
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| Rob Marshall | Person |
Rob Marshall (born October 17 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.) is an American theater and film director, and choreographer. He is a 6-time Tony nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the...
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| Martin Charnin | Person |
Martin Charnin (born November 24, 1934) is a Tony Award-winning American lyricist, writer, and theatre director.
Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of...
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| Noel Coward |
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Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 26 March 1973) was an English actor, playwright and composer of popular music. Among his achievements, he received an Academy Certificate of Merit at the 1943 Academy Awards for "outstanding production...
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| Trevor Nunn | Person |
Sir Trevor Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English award-winning theatre- and film director.
He was born in Ipswich, England and educated at Northgate Grammar School, Ipswich and Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career...
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| Jerome Robbins |
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Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 - July 29, 1998) was an American award-winning film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater. Among the numerous stage productions he worked...
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| 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.
Born in Texarkana, Texas, Logans father died when he was three, and his mother remarried when he was nine. Logan attended Culver...
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| James Lapine | Film director |
James Lapine (born January 10 1949 in Mansfield, Ohio) is an American theatrical director and librettist.
Theatre first became a part of Lapine’s life when he was hired at Yale University as a graphic designer in theatre. Before this he was a...
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| Joe Mantello | Person |
Joseph Mantello (born 27 December 1962) is an American Tony Award-winning 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...
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| George Faison | Musical Artist |
George Faison (born December 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American dancer and choreographer.
Faison studied dance with the Jones-Haywood Capitol Ballet and Carolyn Tate of Howard University while attending Dunbar High School, and appeared...
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| Michael Bennett |
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Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 - July 2, 1987) was an American Tony Award-winning musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer.
Born Michael Bennett DiFiglia to a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother in Buffalo, New York, he...
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| Michael Blakemore |
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Michael Howell Blakemore OBE (born 18 June 1928) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. In 2000 he became the 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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| Richard Maltby, Jr. | Person |
Richard Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937, Ripon, Wisconsin) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
Maltby has conceived and directed two Tony Award-winning musicals: Ain't Misbehavin' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama...
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| Burt Shevelove | Person |
Burt Shevelove (September 19 1915 - April 8 1982) was an American musical theater playwright, lyricist, librettist, and director. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he graduated from Brown University and Yale (Master's degree). After serving as a volunteer...
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| Martin Scorsese |
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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese ( in English and in Italian; born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, producer, actor and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the...
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| Joseph Anthony | Person |
Joseph Anthony (May 24, 1912– January 20, 1993) was an American playwright and director.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anthony's first Broadway credit was as the author of the 1934 play A Ship Comes In. Three years later he debuted as an actor and...
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| Howard Lindsay | Person |
Howard Lindsay (March 29, 1889 - February 11, 1968) was a Broadway producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor. He was born Herman S. Nelke and graduated from Boston Latin School in 1907.
Born in Waterford, New York, he is best known for...
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