The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Robert Moss
Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Elizabeth Wilson
Actress

Gwendolyn Gunn
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

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

George Bartenieff
Co-Founder of Theater for the New City, Actor

Jeff Weiss
Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder, The Good Medicine & Company

Peter Maloney
Actor, Director, Playwright

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

Ralph Lee
Actor, Designer, Puppeteer

JoAnne Akalaitis
Co-Founder of Mabou Mines, Director

David Van Tieghem
Composer, Musician, Sound Designer

Lorcan Otway
Theater Owner, Producer, Theatre 80 St. Marks

Norman Thomas Marshall
Founder of the No Smoking Playhouse, Actor, Playwright

Estelle Parsons
Actress, Director

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

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

Robert Moss Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Elizabeth Wilson Actress

Gwendolyn Gunn Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

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

George Bartenieff Co-Founder of Theater for the New City, Actor

Jeff Weiss Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder, The Good Medicine & Company

Peter Maloney Actor, Director, Playwright

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

Ralph Lee Actor, Designer, Puppeteer

JoAnne Akalaitis Co-Founder of Mabou Mines, Director

David Van Tieghem Composer, Musician, Sound Designer

Lorcan Otway Theater Owner, Producer, Theatre 80 St. Marks

Norman Thomas Marshall Founder of the No Smoking Playhouse, Actor, Playwright

Estelle Parsons Actress, Director

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