Angus Livingston Bowmer was born in Bellingham, Washington, on September 25, 1904. He was the only child of Charles C. Bowmer (born August 19, 1880, Nevada; died February 1967, Portland, Oregon) and Florence "Flora" Priest (born Dec 1880, Wisconsin; died June 5, 1958, Portland, Oregon). He moved with his family at least twice, living in Mount Vernon, Washington, in 1910 and Oak Harbor, Washington, by 1920. He graduated from the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham (now Western Washington University) in 1923. Bowmer attended the University of Washington in Seattle in the 1930s, acting in at least two of its Shakespeare productions, "Love's Labor's Lost" and "Cymbeline" under guest director Ben Iden Payne, an Englishman whose ideas for neo-Elizabethan staging of Shakespeare's plays provided inspiration later in Bowmer's life as he began producing the plays that became the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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Angus L. Bowmer
Angus L. Bowmer | Biography
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Angus Livingston Bowmer was born in Bellingham, Washington, on September 25, 1904. He was the only child of Charles C. Bowmer (born August 19, 1880, Nevada; died February 1967, Portland, Oregon) and Florence "Flora" Priest (born Dec 1880, Wisconsin; died June 5, 1958, Portland, Oregon). He moved with his family at least twice, living in Mount Vernon, Washington, in 1910 and Oak Harbor, Washington, by 1920. He graduated from the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham (now Western Washington University) in 1923. Bowmer attended the University of Washington in Seattle in the 1930s, acting in at least two of its Shakespeare productions, "Love's Labor's Lost" and "Cymbeline" under guest director Ben Iden Payne, an Englishman whose ideas for neo-Elizabethan staging of Shakespeare's plays provided inspiration later in Bowmer's life as he began producing the plays that became the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Angus L. Bowmer | Biography
Angus L. Bowmer (September 25, 1904 – May 26, 1979) was the founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, United States. During his tenure as artistic director, he produced all 37 of William Shakespeare's plays and performed 32 Shakespearean roles in 43 separate stagings.
Angus L. Bowmer | Introduction
Alderson Burrell Horne (1863–1953) was a British theatre director, under the pseudonym Anmer Hall.
Alderson Burrell Horne | Introduction
In 1931, Bowmer was invited to become an instructor in English at Southern Oregon Normal School, a predecessor to Southern Oregon University, in Ashland, Oregon. Bowmer married Gertrude Butler prior to enlisting in the Army July 20, 1942, where he served as a Warrant Officer. After serving his country and returning to Oregon, Bowmer organized theater activities in Ashland and continued teaching at the college until he retired in 1971. Bowmer befriended Fred C. Adams who came to Ashland to observe the festival's operations prior to Adams founding the Utah Shakespearean Festival in 1961.
Angus L. Bowmer | Biography
William Bowman was born in Bakersville, North Carolina, in 1884. As "a boy" he moved with his parents to California, where he later attended Lordsburg College, then located in Pomona. Bowman in college studied architecture and spent a short time working as a draftsman until his career interests turned to acting and the management of stage productions.
William Bowman (director) | Early life
The design for the first outdoor OSF Elizabethan Theatre was sketched by Angus L. Bowmer based on his recollection of productions at the University of Washington in which he had acted while a student. Ashland, Oregon obtained WPA funds in 1935 to build it within the circular walls that remained in the roofless shell of the abandoned Chautauqua theatre. Bowmer extended the walls to reduce the stage width to fifty-five feet, and painted the extensions to resemble half-timbered buildings. He designed a thrust stage—one projecting toward the audience—with a balcony. Two columns helped divide the main stage into forestage, middle stage, and inner stage areas.
Allen Elizabethan Theatre | Original Elizabethan Theatre
When Bowmer died in 1979, the OSF had performed Shakespeare's entire canon twice.
Angus L. Bowmer | Beginnings of the Shakespeare Festival
The remains of an old Chautauqua building in Ashland's Lithia Park gave Bowmer the idea of staging Shakespeare plays on an outdoor Elizabethan stage. In 1935 he persuaded the government of Ashland to revive the tradition of July 4th celebrations with an important addition: a Shakespearean Festival. The Works Progress Administration helped construct a makeshift Elizabethan stage on the Chautauqua site and Bowmer, college students, teachers, and Ashland citizens mounted two plays, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, for three performances. Bowmer directed and played the roles of Shylock and Sir Toby Belch. Several hundred people attended the First Annual Shakespearean Festival.
Angus L. Bowmer | Beginnings of the Shakespeare Festival
At the age of fifteen McBean took part in the amateur dramatics productions at the Lyceum Theatre in Monmouth, where he was mostly involved in the creation of sets, props and costumes. Later in life he credited this experience as being the start of his lifelong interest in dressing up and performing.
Angus McBean | Early life
Ernest Gaskell Sterndale Bennett, (May 30, 1884 – April 9, 1982) was an actor and theatre director in Canada. Born in London and a grandson of the English composer Sir William Sterndale Bennett, he was educated at Derby School and in 1904 qualified with first class honours as a civil and mechanical engineer from the Central Technical College of the City & Guilds of London Institute. In 1905 he emigrated to Canada and began working in amateur theatres in Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. He founded and directed the Lethbridge Playgoers Club and the Alberta Drama Festival upon which the Governor General the Earl of Bessborough later based the Dominion Drama Festival.
Ernest Sterndale Bennett | Introduction
His work seemed always done by magic. [But Brown reports: “During the time Brougham’s Lyceum was building, and on August 5, 1850, the rear part of the building fell to the ground, killing two of the laborers.”] …While building the New Bowery, in 1859, he went to bed one night and arose the next morning, blind.…[He] bore up bravely under this painful affliction, although he never did much work afterward. One summer,…it was suggested to him to come to Albany and change the old Pearl street theatre, then a church, into its original condition. He thought well of the idea, acted upon it, and so, in 1863, became for the first time in his life, a [theatre] manager.
John M. Trimble | Introduction
The family name generated thousands of newspaper articles over the course of Albert's life. In Adelaide, 1952, Brandon-Cremer was once introduced in an interview by Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio with "its really, um… rather difficult to think of any theatre movement in Australia, in the total history of the Australian theatre, without thinking of you".
Albert Wilhelm Anton Brandon-Cremer | Introduction
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Ingemar Lindh | External links
Richard Hay as a child made a cardboard box theatre with colored construction paper scenery, and as a teenager designed his first set for his high school class production of Pride and Prejudice in Wichita, Kansas. He earned his BA in civil engineering and architecture in 1952, and his MA in theater arts from Stanford University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in England and is the recipient of the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award. the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award, the Portland, Oregon, Critics Circle Drammy Award, and was selected as the first recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
Richard L. Hay (scenic designer) | Biography
Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire, England, the second son of James C. Hume, a Scot and clerk and steward at the County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum there. When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he was educated at Otago Boys' High School and studied law at the University of Otago. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation Hume relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he obtained a job as a barristers' clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of Melbourne theatres to accept or even to read them.
Fergus Hume | Early life
Dawson, Mr. Mahon, and Mr. Wilkes. The theatre opened with a production featuring William Thomas Lewis.
Capel Street Theatre | Introduction
Including: Norman Ayrton (1924 - 2017), John Percy Burrell (1910 - 1972), Hugh Hunt (1911 - 1993), John Moody (1906 - 1993), David Phethean (1918 - 2001), Alex Reeve, and Jules Wright (1948 - 2015).
University of Bristol Theatre Collection | Directors
David Bowers is a British film director and screenwriter, originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester, in the United Kingdom.
David Bowers (director) | Introduction
With Guy L. Frazer, he designed the Rio Grande Theatre in the Renaissance Revival style in 1926. All three buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Otto H. Thorman | Career
Including: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 - 1917), Honor Blackman (b. 1925), Stephanie Cole (b. 1941), Edward Gordon Craig (1872 - 1966), Cyril Fletcher (1913 - 2005), Rosalinde Fuller (1892 - 1982), Joyce Grenfell (1910 - 1979), Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905), Harry Brodribb Irving (1870 - 1919), Miriam Karlin (1925 - 2011), Hannah Murray (b. 1989), Leon Quartermaine (1876 - 1967), Arnold Ridley (1896 - 1984), Jack Shepherd (b. 1940), Ernest Thesiger (1879 - 1961), Margaret Tyzack (1931 - 2011), Hermann Vezin (1829 - 1910), Peggy Ann Wood (1912–1998), and Susannah York (1939 - 2011).
University of Bristol Theatre Collection | Actors
As a Guest Director at The University of Washington in the summer of 1930, he staged Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Love's Labour's Lost on an Elizabethan style, on a temporary Thrust stage. The productions inspired a young graduate student, Angus L. Bowmer, who acted in and staged managed the productions. Bowmer went on to incorporate these staging concepts when he founded the Oregon Shakespeare Festival five years later. Payne directed Shakespeare's Cymbeline at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1956, and A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1961. In 1934, Payne and Thomas Woods Stevens edited and produced several short (one hour) productions of Shakespeare plays that were presented during the second year of the Chicago World's Fair (Century of Progress) at a crude reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theater.
Ben Iden Payne | Inspiration on other theaters
Bowers' first play was "Where Do We Go From Here?" that ran for 15 performances in 1968.
William Bowers | Career
Actors including Dirk Bogarde, Joan Collins, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Lockwood, Barry Morse, and Anthony Quayle started their theatrical careers here. Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Charles Hawtrey and William Gaskell directed plays here and the theatre staged the first plays of Terence Rattigan and William Douglas-Home.
Q Theatre | Introduction
Farr was brought up in Surrey and educated in Guildford and the University of Cambridge (English Literature double first).
David Farr (theatre director) | Background
Robert Chuter is an Australian theatre director, film director, producer, writer, and actor.
Robert Chuter | Introduction
Richard L. Hay (born 1929) is the Principal Theatre and Scenic Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Richard L. Hay (scenic designer) | Introduction
Bowker was born in Ashby, Massachusetts. He graduated from Fitchburg High School. His debut came in Boston in a stage adaptation of "The Christian", by Hall Caine. He was a long-time stage performer in Chicago and Cincinnati, and in summer stock at amusement park Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. He was a pioneer in "open air" theatre at Whalom Park and at his summer home in Ashburnham, where other performers were frequent guests, including Ainsworth Arnold and Bette Davis. Between 1912 and 1938 he was active on Broadway. Notable stage plays he performed in were "The High Road" (1912), "A Night in Avignon" (1919), "You Can't Take It With You" (1936) and "200 Were Chosen" (1936).
Aldrich Bowker | Biography
When, in 1923, the Institute of Theatre Studies at Berlin University, world-wide the first of its kind, was founded despite much resistance from the more established disciplines, Herrmann was appointed its head, a function he fulfilled alternately with Julius Petersen.
Max Herrmann (theatrologist) | Introduction
In 1909 Sybil gave birth to their first son, John, and soon after, they joined Frohman on a tour of the United States. When Casson returned to England he became a theatrical director working with Annie Horniman from 1911–1913. He then succeeded Alfred Wareing as the producer of the Scottish Playgoers Company, based in Glasgow, and forerunner of the Citizens' Theatre, in which his elder son John would become an actor-director. In 1912, a second son, Christopher, was born.
Lewis Casson | Acting career
In 1980, the New Playwrights' Theater in Washington established an award in his name.
Richard L. Coe | Introduction
Including: Graham Barlow (d.2003), Deirdre Clancy, David Cockayne, Edward Gordon Craig (1872 - 1966), Frederick Crooke (1908 - 1991), John Elvery (1939 - 1997), Paul Farnsworth, Laurence Irving (1897 - 1988), Oliver Messel (1904 - 1978), Motley Theatre Design Group, Patrick Robertson (1922 - 2009) and Rosemary Vercoe (1917 - 2013), Owen Paul Smyth (1895 - 1979), Yolanda Sonnabend (1935 - 2015), Alan Tagg (1928 - 2002), Julia Trevelyan Oman (1930 - 2003) and David Walker (1934 - 2008).
University of Bristol Theatre Collection | Designers
Ashmore began his theatrical career as an actor. He made his first stage appearance at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1935. He went on to serve as assistant stage manager for the Glyndebourne Opera Company and the Covent Garden Opera. Ashmore directed his first production, "Hassan", at the Midland Institute in 1937. After directing several plays from 1937 through 1974, Ashmore organized the Milton Tercentenary Festival. In 1975, he became the honorary director of the Chiltern Festival.
Basil Ashmore | Theatrical career
Foote attended Port Perry High School, and studied film and theatre at Humber College, becoming the first student permitted to direct one of their "Mainstage Theatre Productions". Among the performances he directed while at Humber are "Jitters", "The Shadow Box" and a workshop production of "Bent".
John H. Foote | Background
At this time in New Zealand professional theatre in New Zealand was just beginning, and in Wellington where Lord was, Downstage Theatre had opened in 1964 and Unity Theatre was active. Victoria University started a Drama Department in 1970 which Lord attended at age 25, the professor recounts meeting Lord for the first time: ""an imposingly tall man - well over six feet, with light brown hair, a slight stoop and a manner that could switch from being serious and earnest to riotously funny in the course of a single sentence."" Philip Mann For a period of time Lord worked backstage at Downstage Theatre, was teaching school, studying drama and writing plays at night.
Robert Lord (playwright) | Biography
It then transferred to the Haymarket Theater, London, in Spring 2015 with the same cast.
Bernard Pomerance | Biography
Jasper Deeter (1893–1972) was an American-born stage and film actor, stage director, and founder of Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, one of the first regional repertory theatres in the United States.
Jasper Deeter | Introduction
One of the first recorded productions in the 20th Century was directed by Ivan Fuller at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD in 1998. The production sparked a 2003 paper "Everything Old is New Again: The Elizabethan and the Contemporary Appeal in Lyly's "Gallathea"" which was presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Victoria, BC. A production directed by Brett Sullivan Santry, was performed by the students of Stuart Hall School of Staunton, Virginia. When he directed the play, he was an MLitt/MFA graduate student in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College. It ran from 2 to 5 February 2007.
Gallathea | Modern productions
A collection of lecture theatres at the Kelburn campus of that university were named after him. He was also a professor at Columbia University from 1907 to 1908.
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin | Introduction
Aleksandar Dunđerović () is a theatre director, author, and professor serving as a head of department of Drama & Theatre Studies at The University College Cork, Ireland.
Aleksandar Dunđerović | Introduction
Walter D. Asmus (born 1941 in Lübeck) is a German theatre director.
Walter D. Asmus | Introduction
Harold Levey was the musical director.
Armstrong's Theatre of Today | Introduction
William Dunlap (1766–1839) was a pioneer of American theater.
William Dunlap (disambiguation) | Introduction
American Music Stage, Burke, Virginia Atlas Theater, Washington, D.C. Backstreet Theater, Ada, Ohio
Hans Bachmann | Director
He was born in Auburn, New York on April 17, 1879. He attended the University of Rochester where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and graduated around 1901. He made his stage debut "Don Caesar's Return" with James Keteltas Hackett at Wallack's Theatre in Manhattan. He wrote the farcical play "The Arrival of Kitty" in 1906. He married Helen Louise Briggs around 1912. They had two children: Norman Lee Swartout, Jr. (born 1914) who married Hildegarde Spindler; and Barbara Swartout. He became the director of the Summit Playhouse in 1918.
Norman Lee Swartout | Biography
He was also the off-Broadway director of the rock musical "Hair" when it premiered at the Public Theater. Freedman was leading artistic director (1960–1967) and artistic director (1967–1971) of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, artistic director of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio (1985–1997), and co-artistic director of John Houseman’s The Acting Company (1974–1977). He taught at Yale School of Drama and the Juilliard School. He was Dean of the Drama School at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (1991–2012). He was the first American ever invited to direct at the Globe Theatre in London.
Gerald Freedman | Life and career
Lou Bellamy (born March 10, 1944) is an American stage director, actor, producer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the founder and artistic director, Emeritus of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1979 until his retirement as an associate professor in 2011.
Lou Bellamy | Introduction
The exhaustive and comprehensive list can be found at Theatre Aotearoa Database.
Miranda Harcourt | Introduction
Bowman then returned to the legitimate stage and spent several seasons in Chicago serving as a leading man in productions presented by The Imperial and Bush Temple stock companies.
William Bowman (director) | Stage
William Alexander Paterson was born in Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, on 23 February 1948 to William and Rosemary Paterson (née McCormack). He was a boarder at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent before going on to Keele University (1969–1973) where he studied English and founded an experimental theatre group called Guerilla Theatre based on the principles of the Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski.
Bill Alexander (director) | Early years
Austin Edmund Quigley (born December 31, 1942) was Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University, Lucy G. Moses Professor, and Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, in New York City, and the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest honor. He is also a member of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies and of the Columbia University Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Theatre, has served on the editorial boards of "Modern Drama", "New Literary History", "The Pinter Review", and the University of Michigan Press book series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance.
Austin E. Quigley | Introduction
Abraham Lincoln Erlanger (May 4, 1859 – March 7, 1930) was an American theatrical producer, director, designer, theatre owner, and a leading figure of the Theatrical Syndicate.
A. L. Erlanger | Introduction
The play was first performed at the Village Pub Theatre, Leith which presents readings of short plays and was co-founded by Ley.
James Ley (dramatist) | Introduction
John Gielgud was director.
Gerald Flood | Theatre
Edward Lloyd Hyman (1894-1984) was an early twentieth century theatre manager and innovator in the cinema industry.
Edward L. Hyman | Introduction
Thomas White Lamb (1871–1942) was an American architect, born in Scotland. He is noted as one of the foremost designers of theaters and cinemas in the 20th century.
Thomas W. Lamb | Introduction
He became director of the theater in 1888. The foyer of the premises were used as an art gallery. The artists Jules Chéret, Ferdinand Bac and Théophile Steinlen had their first one-person shows there while the main room was being used for the Théâtre d'Application.
Charles Bodinier | Théatre d'Application
He currently directs theatre productions.
Colin Frechter | Career
He also designed sets for some of the productions.
Kenton Theatre | Introduction
George Izenour's first theatre consultation began with being contacted by McGeorge Bundy, then Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Bundy was building a new theatre, that would eventually become the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Mass., based on a program from Archibald MacLeish. Mr. MacLeish wanted the theatre to convert from proscenium to thrust because these were, according to Mr. MacLeish, the two great forms of theatre which had to do with western culture. Izenour designed a theater that could be converted from one stage type to the other by a process, part manual and part electronic, that took about 15 minutes.
George Izenour | Theatre design
He also edited and compiled the classic reference work "British Theatre Design" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990) and edited the internationally best-selling diaries of Sir Peter Hall (Hamish Hamilton, 1983).
John Goodwin (theatre publicist) | Introduction
Allan grew up in Portland Parish. He was educated at Mico College, and after graduating became assistant master at Calabar Elementary School, then headmaster at Titchfield Upper School. In 1919, he founded the Capitol Theatre which was the first place to show motion pictures in the parish.
Harold Egbert Allan | Early life
Robert Lyons (born July 6, 1959) is an American writer, playwright and director, best known as the artistic director the two-time OBIE Award-winning New Ohio Theatre in Manhattan.
Robert Lyons (writer) | Introduction
In 1964, Adrian was appointed as the Theatre's first paid director, wasting no time in getting the Theatre out of the financial doldrums; Adrian Stanley produced shows up until his recent death, and has literally hundreds of shows to his name.
Reps Theatre | The New Theatre
Samuel James Hume (June 14, 1885 – September 1, 1962) was an American dramatic director, producer, art museum director, and book dealer. Samuel Hume was born in San Francisco, California in 1885, the son of James B. Hume, a famous Wells Fargo detective. He attended Berkeley High School, graduating in 1904, and then the University of California at Berkeley, where he played leading roles in student drama productions and received a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1908. He then traveled in Europe and studied modern European theater practices with Edward Craig in Florence. Returning to the U.S., he attended Harvard College in 1912-14, where he studied in the playwriting workshop of George Pierce Baker, earned a master's degree, and organized the first exhibition of stagecraft in the U.S.
Samuel James Hume | Introduction
Bowers studied fine art at Chester School of Art and animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design. His first job was on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", as an inbetweener, under director Richard Williams.
David Bowers (director) | Early life
He holds B.A. and M.F.A from Columbia, and a Ph.D from Carnegie-Mellon University. He came to Buffalo, NY in 1969 and began teaching Theater at the University at Buffalo, where he soon became Chairman of the Theater Department in 1967- 1985. In 1979 he founded Shakespeare in Delaware Park, finding the initial funding for electricity from the Mayor of the city, Mayor Stanley Makowski and further funding from the University at Buffalo’s Theater Department.
Saul Elkin | Biography
and Broadway.
John F. Campion | Introduction
Bowman's surname in some silent-era film reviews and news items, as well in some modern references on American film history, is occasionally misidentified or also cited as William J. "Bauman." It is significant that in the extensive "Studio Directory" published by the trade magazine "Motion Picture News" in January and October 1916 no "William J. Baumen" is mentioned among more than 2,000 "authorized" biographies of actors, actresses, directors, writers, technicians, executives, and "Other Members of the Film Industry." Only William J. Bowman, as a director, is profiled. The lack of any reference to a William J. Bauman in the editions of that directory, the absence of even a basic profile on him in earlier or later film-industry publications, and the attribution of credits to both men for the same films—such as "The Starbucks", "The Beautiful Unknown", and "The Terror of the Fold"—indicate that Bowman and Bauman were actually the same person.
William Bowman (director) | Introduction
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Pat Chapman | References
In Los Angeles, he has directed major revivals of "Hair", "Of Thee I Sing", "Mack and Mabel", "The Boys from Syracuse", "Follies", and others. Also in Los Angeles he directed the first production of "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks" and "The Sisters". For regional theatres, he has directed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Little Foxes", "A Man for All Seasons", "The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd", "Romeo and Juliet", "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off", and "The Tempest", among others. In addition, he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre (now the Mitzi E.
Arthur Allan Seidelman | Career
Kester Berwick, "Head of Orpheus Singing," Angus & Robertson, London, 1973. Robert Dessaix, "Corfu," Picador (Pan MacMillan), Australia, 2001. Thelma Afford, "Ab-Intra Studio Theatre in Adelaide 1931-35", "Australasian Drama Studies" n. 12-13, pp. 167–180. Bundoora, Vic. : Theatre and Drama Program, La Trobe University. Thelma Afford, "The Most Experimental Little Theatre", "Dreamers and Visionaries: Adelaide's Little Theatres from the 1920s to the early 1940s" pp. 45–72. Sydney: Currency Press.
Kester Berwick | References
William Hallam (born in England about 1712; died there about 1758) was an English actor and theatre manager who organized the company that gave the first professionally produced theatrical performances in the New World.
William Hallam (theatre manager) | Introduction
Andrew MacBean (born 7 February 1957) is a Canadian theatre director and writer.
Andrew MacBean | Introduction
He was also a theater actor.
Sully Boyar | Introduction
William Orr was a Scottish-born impresario from Glasgow who had a background as a director and theatre administrator in London before coming to Australia. Orr felt that there was a market in Australia for the new British theatre craze, the intimate topical satirical revue, and he pioneered the format in Sydney during 1954. Actor Gordon Chater praised Orr as a champion of Australian theatrical talent:
Phillip Street Theatre | Founding
Robert Allan Ackerman (born June 30, 1944, Brooklyn) is an American film and theatre director. He has directed numerous films since 1992.
Robert Allan Ackerman | Introduction
He also served as director of the Community Arts Association in Santa Barbara, California, and the Theatre Guild School of Acting in New York.
Hamilton MacFadden | Introduction
Baycher.
National Film Actors' Theatre | Introduction
He attended high school in Naponee, Nebraska, and acted in several plays there; he graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Music and Fine Arts in 1927 and later studied at the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston.
Pierce Lyden | Education
John Hackman Sumner, (27 May 192424 May 2013) was the founder and artistic director of Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia.
John Sumner (director) | Introduction
Mears read English and History at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Double First Class Honours Degree in English and History. He began assisting the playwright and director Howard Barker while still at university, before becoming a Trainee Assistant Director at the King's Head Theatre, London.
Oliver Mears | Education
Lewis Hallam (circa 1714–1756) was an English-born actor and theatre director in the colonial United States.
Lewis Hallam | Introduction
Bill was named Artist in Residence at the All For One Theatre, and also at the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance for 2015-16.
Bill Bowers | Early life
Mastrosimone's first play was "The Woolgatherer" which premiered at Rutgers Theatre Company in New Jersey of 1979.
William Mastrosimone | Introduction
Horne was known in the theatrical world as Anmer Hall, and also used the stage name Waldo Wright.
Westminster Theatre | History
Lazar had been lessee and manager of the Theatre Royal, Adelaide since 1870; Allison joined in that management in 1873 and became sole lessee around 1876. It was in that year he made his first visit to America, arranging for George Rignold to visit the colonies with his grand production of "Henry V.," and introduced to Australia the popular comedian, Fred Thorne.
James Allison (theatre) | History
William Abbott (12 June 1790 7 June 1843) was a theatrical manager, based in England, and the United States. Abbott worked with the Haymarket Theatre in London, where he first appearance as "Frederick" in an 1809 production of "Lovers' Vows". He also worked in America, where he first appeared as "Mr. Beverly" in an 1832 production of "The Gamester" at the Park Theatre in New York. Later he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he created the New Charleston Theatre and operated it from 1837 through 1841. This theatre brought theatrical stars like Ellen Tree, Booth, Cooper, and Vandenhoff to Charleston.
William Abbott (manager) | Introduction
Susan H. Schulman (born July 6, 1947) is an American theater director.
Susan H. Schulman | Introduction
Askin operates the Off-Broadway Westside Theatre.
Peter Askin | Biography
He was born in 1853 as Dorset William Lawrance to solicitor John W. Lawrance. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and was intended to go into Law. Made his first appearance on the stage in 1877, he toured the English provinces for five years to 1882. Much work in London theatres. He went to New York City in 1884, making his first appearance at Haverley's Theatre on 6 October 1884. He started in silent films in 1912, making his last film in 1926.
Lawrence D'Orsay | Biography
After gaining considerable acting experience on stage, Bowman was invited by Edwin Thanhouser to join his new motion-picture company, which he had established in 1909 in New Rochelle, New York. Bowman moved to New Rochelle in the latter months of 1910 and took residence at 276 Huguenot Street. He first appeared in the Thanhouser Company's short "The Old Curiosity Shop", released in January 1912. That was followed by roles in "Silas Marner", "Under Two Flags", as Shylock in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", and performances in "Now Watch the Professor", "For the Mikado", and other productions. Bowman worked with Thanhouser for two years.
William Bowman (director) | 1910-1915
Saul Elkin is an actor and director in Buffalo, NY. He is the founder and artistic director of Shakespeare in Delaware Park, and a former chair of the University at Buffalo's Theatre Department.
Saul Elkin | Introduction
Kester's Broadway credits are recorded at the Internet Broadway Database.
Paul Kester | Theatre
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London King's Head Theatre Club, London Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Pitlochry Festival Theatre Dundee Repertory Company Perth Repertory Theatre Bedlam Theatre Theatremakers,Stirling Stage Company (Scotland) Arts Theatre, Glasgow University - 1965–1972 Selected plays directed
Robert Trotter | Theatre
Swanson went to Westmont College for training in the theater arts under John H. Cochran, a former department chair and professor at the Yale School of Drama, and John Blondell, full professor and founder of Lit Moon Theatre Company of Santa Barbara.
Joshua Swanson | American theater
Note: The list below is limited to New York/Broadway theatrical productions; listed as Warren William, except where noted
Warren William | Stage
Of interest to all theatre people is the close relationship he had with Joan Littlewood,
D. G. Bridson | Introduction
Abel Seyler later became famous as a theatre director.
Seyler &amp; Tillemann | Introduction
Gregory Mosher (born 1949) is a longtime 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 director and television director, producer, and writer. He currently chairs the Theatre Department at Hunter College.
Gregory Mosher | Introduction
Davis was born in London to Australian parents of Welsh descent. His father Leslie was on a business visit to London with his new wife Daisy. Six months later they returned to Sydney on the maiden voyage of the "Orsova" in 1914. Davis grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs, studying at Cranbrook School and University of Sydney where he studied economics. He became interested in drama at school and performed in plays at University. In 1933 Davis made his first professional appearance in a film, "The Squatter's Daughter". He also begin appearing in plays at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.
Allan Davis (director) | Biography