The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Richard Maltby Jr.
Director, Producer, Lyricist, Writer, Screenwriter

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

Dorothy Olim
Producer, General Manager, Operating Officer of ATPAM, K/O Management, Inc., K/O Advertising, Inc.

Elise Stone and Craig Smith
Actors, Directors, Producers, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Founders, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Barbara Dana
Actress, Playwright

Richard Foreman
Founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Playwright, Director

Lola Pashalinski
Performance Artist, Actor

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

Joan MacIntosh
Co-Founder of The Performance Group, Actress, Director

Richard Schechner
Founder of The Performance Group, Author, Director, Playwright, Professor

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

Rosalba Rolón
Co-Founder Pregones Theater, Director, Actor

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

Lynn Cohen
Actress

Joe John Battista
Director, Artistic Director, Photographer, Musician, Founder, Screaming Mimes Theater Company

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

Richard Maltby Jr. Director, Producer, Lyricist, Writer, Screenwriter

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

Dorothy Olim Producer, General Manager, Operating Officer of ATPAM, K/O Management, Inc., K/O Advertising, Inc.

Elise Stone and Craig Smith Actors, Directors, Producers, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Founders, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Barbara Dana Actress, Playwright

Richard Foreman Founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Playwright, Director

Lola Pashalinski Performance Artist, Actor

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

Joan MacIntosh Co-Founder of The Performance Group, Actress, Director

Richard Schechner Founder of The Performance Group, Author, Director, Playwright, Professor

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

Rosalba Rolón Co-Founder Pregones Theater, Director, Actor

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

Lynn Cohen Actress

Joe John Battista Director, Artistic Director, Photographer, Musician, Founder, Screaming Mimes Theater Company