The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

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

Robert Moss
Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Terese Hayden
Founder of Equity Library Theatre and Player’s Guide, Teacher at Circle in the Square

Richard Seff
Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Novelist, Casting Agent

Gretchen Cryer
ACTRESS, WRITER, COMPOSER, LYRICIST

John Jesurun
Multi-Media Artist, Director, Playwright

Bill Cwikowski
Founding Member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Actor

Arthur French
Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Ilion Troya
Actor, Designer, Writer, Translator, Member of The Living Theatre

Rosemary Harris
Actress

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

Richard Frankel
Producer

Robert Walter
Stage Manager

Tina Howe
Playwright

George Morfogen
Actor

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

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

Robert Moss Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Terese Hayden Founder of Equity Library Theatre and Player’s Guide, Teacher at Circle in the Square

Richard Seff Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Novelist, Casting Agent

Gretchen Cryer ACTRESS, WRITER, COMPOSER, LYRICIST

John Jesurun Multi-Media Artist, Director, Playwright

Bill Cwikowski Founding Member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Actor

Arthur French Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Ilion Troya Actor, Designer, Writer, Translator, Member of The Living Theatre

Rosemary Harris Actress

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

Richard Frankel Producer

Robert Walter Stage Manager

Tina Howe Playwright

George Morfogen Actor