The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

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

Bob McGrath
Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Paul Zimet
Founder of The Talking Band, Actor, Director, Playwright

Merle Debuskey
Press Agent

Fred Papert
Advertising Executive, Preservationist, Founder of the 42nd Street Development Corporation

Christina (Chryse) Maile
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

André Bishop
Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Barry Grove
Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Willa Kim
Costume Designer

Mary Louise Wilson
Actor, Playwright, Writer

Nancy Ford
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Michael Feingold
Playwright, Translator, Theatre Critic at The Village Voice, Chairman of the Obie Awards (Judges Panel)

Dorothy Olim
Producer, General Manager, Operating Officer of ATPAM, K/O Management, Inc., K/O Advertising, Inc.

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

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

Bob McGrath Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Paul Zimet Founder of The Talking Band, Actor, Director, Playwright

Merle Debuskey Press Agent

Fred Papert Advertising Executive, Preservationist, Founder of the 42nd Street Development Corporation

Christina (Chryse) Maile Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

André Bishop Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Barry Grove Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Willa Kim Costume Designer

Mary Louise Wilson Actor, Playwright, Writer

Nancy Ford COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Michael Feingold Playwright, Translator, Theatre Critic at The Village Voice, Chairman of the Obie Awards (Judges Panel)

Dorothy Olim Producer, General Manager, Operating Officer of ATPAM, K/O Management, Inc., K/O Advertising, Inc.