The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Lynn Cohen
Actress

Doris Blum (Gorelick)
Stage Manager, Producer Production Associate to Robert Whitehead

The Harris Family
Actors, Playwrights, Producers, Musicians, Designers, Stagehands

Rosemarie Tichler
Casting Director and Artistic Producer of NYSF/The Public

Oz Scott
Director

Ellen Maddow
Composer, Writer, Actor, Mediator, Co-Founder The Talking Band

Robert Kalfin
Founder of the Chelsea Theater Center, Director

Black-Eyed Susan
Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Actress

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

Gilbert Parker
Literary Agent

Willa Kim
Costume Designer

Dr. Glory Van Scott
Actress, Singer, Dancer, Director, Producer, Composer, Playwright, Author, Activist

Anne Bogart
Co-Founder of SITI Company, Director

Woodie King Jr.
Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Fyvush Finkel
Actor, Comedian

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

Lynn Cohen Actress

Doris Blum (Gorelick) Stage Manager, Producer Production Associate to Robert Whitehead

The Harris Family Actors, Playwrights, Producers, Musicians, Designers, Stagehands

Rosemarie Tichler Casting Director and Artistic Producer of NYSF/The Public

Oz Scott Director

Ellen Maddow Composer, Writer, Actor, Mediator, Co-Founder The Talking Band

Robert Kalfin Founder of the Chelsea Theater Center, Director

Black-Eyed Susan Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Actress

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

Gilbert Parker Literary Agent

Willa Kim Costume Designer

Dr. Glory Van Scott Actress, Singer, Dancer, Director, Producer, Composer, Playwright, Author, Activist

Anne Bogart Co-Founder of SITI Company, Director

Woodie King Jr. Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Fyvush Finkel Actor, Comedian