The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Patricia Conolly
Actor, Director

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Theodora Skipitares
Playwright, Visual Artist, Director, Performer

Ned Van Zandt
Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder of La MaMa Hollywood

Susan Mills (aka Roberta Lean)
Actress, Director, Producer

Eleanor Reissa
Actor, Singer, Director, Playwright, Choreographer

Clinton Turner Davis
Director, Dramaturg, Educator, Production Supervisor, Consultant, Playwright, Writer

Robyn Goodman
Actor, Producer, Co-Founder Second Stage, Artistic Consultant, Roundabout Theatre Company, Founding Artistic Producer, Roundabout Underground

Mary Louise Wilson
Actor, Playwright, Writer

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

Walter and Georgia Hadler
Actor, Playwright, Director

Cathy Roskam
Actress, Producer, Director and Founder of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company (JJTC), Bishop

Casey Childs
Director, Producer, Actor, Founder, Executive Director Primary Stages

Merle Debuskey
Press Agent

Marylouse Burke
Actress

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

Patricia Conolly Actor, Director

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Theodora Skipitares Playwright, Visual Artist, Director, Performer

Ned Van Zandt Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder of La MaMa Hollywood

Susan Mills (aka Roberta Lean) Actress, Director, Producer

Eleanor Reissa Actor, Singer, Director, Playwright, Choreographer

Clinton Turner Davis Director, Dramaturg, Educator, Production Supervisor, Consultant, Playwright, Writer

Robyn Goodman Actor, Producer, Co-Founder Second Stage, Artistic Consultant, Roundabout Theatre Company, Founding Artistic Producer, Roundabout Underground

Mary Louise Wilson Actor, Playwright, Writer

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

Walter and Georgia Hadler Actor, Playwright, Director

Cathy Roskam Actress, Producer, Director and Founder of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company (JJTC), Bishop

Casey Childs Director, Producer, Actor, Founder, Executive Director Primary Stages

Merle Debuskey Press Agent

Marylouse Burke Actress