The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

Celebrating the visionaries who created New York's vibrant Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theater.

Laurence Luckinbill
Actor, Writer

Jack Garfein
Director, Actor, Teacher, Producer, Author,Co- Founder and Artistic Director of the Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Harold Clurman Theater

Rosalba Rolón
Co-Founder Pregones Theater, Director, Actor

Willa Kim
Costume Designer

Charles Mee
Playwright, Author

Eduardo Machado
Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Ted Story
Co-Founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater (IRT), Artistic Director, Actor, Director, Author

Richard Maltby Jr.
Director, Producer, Lyricist, Writer, Screenwriter

Gigi Gibson Bolt
Actor; Director, Theatre Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Director, Theatre and Musical, National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC); Interim Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, NYC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts

Patricia Conolly
Actor, Director

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

Lynne Meadow
Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Robert Moss
Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Rene Buch
Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Julian Schlossberg
Producer

MUSINGS

Posted Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Off-Broadway Oral History Project
by: Casey Childs

I have always had a curiosity with the people who create theatre out of pure passion and, like many artists, I have always been frustrated by the sad, ephemeral nature of producing plays.

FROM THE STAGE

Posted Thursday, August 15, 2019

KINESTHETICS BY Laurence Luckinbill

FROM THE HOUSE

Posted Thursday, March 2, 2017

Casting about Off-Broadway
by: Rosemarie Tichler

As a casting director for over 25 years, from 1967 to 1991, my night job was being an audience member.

The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

Laurence Luckinbill Actor, Writer

Jack Garfein Director, Actor, Teacher, Producer, Author,Co- Founder and Artistic Director of the Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Harold Clurman Theater

Rosalba Rolón Co-Founder Pregones Theater, Director, Actor

Willa Kim Costume Designer

Charles Mee Playwright, Author

Eduardo Machado Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Ted Story Co-Founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater (IRT), Artistic Director, Actor, Director, Author

Richard Maltby Jr. Director, Producer, Lyricist, Writer, Screenwriter

Gigi Gibson Bolt Actor; Director, Theatre Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Director, Theatre and Musical, National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC); Interim Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, NYC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts

Patricia Conolly Actor, Director

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

Lynne Meadow Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Robert Moss Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Rene Buch Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Julian Schlossberg Producer