The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Christopher Durang
Playwright, Actor

Ralph Lee
Actor, Designer, Puppeteer

Caryl Goldsmith
Group Sales Specialist

Nancy Ford
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

Julian Schlossberg
Producer

Baayork Lee
Actress, Dancer, Singer, Director, Co-Founder National Asian Artists Project

Everett Quinton
Actor, Producer, Director, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

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

Magie Dominic
Writer, Actor, Archivist

Fyvush Finkel
Actor, Comedian

Amy Saltz
Director

Ramona Ponce
Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

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

Arthur French
Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Marianne de Pury
Director, Composer, Translator, Founder, Sante Fe Ensemble

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

Christopher Durang Playwright, Actor

Ralph Lee Actor, Designer, Puppeteer

Caryl Goldsmith Group Sales Specialist

Nancy Ford COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

Julian Schlossberg Producer

Baayork Lee Actress, Dancer, Singer, Director, Co-Founder National Asian Artists Project

Everett Quinton Actor, Producer, Director, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

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

Magie Dominic Writer, Actor, Archivist

Fyvush Finkel Actor, Comedian

Amy Saltz Director

Ramona Ponce Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

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

Arthur French Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Marianne de Pury Director, Composer, Translator, Founder, Sante Fe Ensemble