The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Mark Russell
Director, Producer, Artistic Director, Producing Artistic Director, PS 122, Under The Radar/The Public

Everett Quinton
Actor, Producer, Director, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

Ozzie Rodriguez
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of the Archives + Resident Director - La MaMa

Nicky Paraiso
Actor, Dancer, Musician, Writer, Performance Artist, Producer, Curator, The Club/La Mama

Dick D. Zigun
Playwright, Director, Founder/Artistic Director Coney Island USA: The Mermaid Parade; Coney Island Side Show; The Coney Island Museum; Burlesque At The Beach

Gail Merrifield Papp
Director of Plays and Musicals Development at the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater

Linda and David Laundra
Co-Founders, The Writers Theatre

Jack Garfein
Director, Actor, Teacher, Producer, Author,Co- Founder and Artistic Director of the Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Harold Clurman Theater

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

Austin Pendleton
Actor, Director, Playwright

Jennifer Tipton
Lighting

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

Merle Debuskey
Press Agent

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

Gwendolyn Gunn
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

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

Mark Russell Director, Producer, Artistic Director, Producing Artistic Director, PS 122, Under The Radar/The Public

Everett Quinton Actor, Producer, Director, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

Ozzie Rodriguez Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of the Archives + Resident Director - La MaMa

Nicky Paraiso Actor, Dancer, Musician, Writer, Performance Artist, Producer, Curator, The Club/La Mama

Dick D. Zigun Playwright, Director, Founder/Artistic Director Coney Island USA: The Mermaid Parade; Coney Island Side Show; The Coney Island Museum; Burlesque At The Beach

Gail Merrifield Papp Director of Plays and Musicals Development at the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater

Linda and David Laundra Co-Founders, The Writers Theatre

Jack Garfein Director, Actor, Teacher, Producer, Author,Co- Founder and Artistic Director of the Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Harold Clurman Theater

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

Austin Pendleton Actor, Director, Playwright

Jennifer Tipton Lighting

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

Merle Debuskey Press Agent

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

Gwendolyn Gunn Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective