Cheryl Crawford

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Cheryl Crawford (born September 24, 1902 in Akron , Ohio , † October 7, 1986 in New York City , New York ) was an American theater director and producer .

Life

Cheryl Crawford studied drama at Smith College in Massachusetts . After graduating, she went to New York and began working as an actress on Broadway in the late 1920s . In 1931 she founded the Group Theater with Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg . It was here that she began working as a director. Her third production for this theater collective Men in White in 1933 laid the foundation for the group's continued successful existence and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama1934. In 1937 she retired from directing and began working exclusively as a producer. At first she led further group theater productions to financial success, but then gradually broke away from the group and produced Broadway hits independently. In 1946 she founded the American Repertory Theater together with the actress Eva La Galienne , which until 1948 tried to set up a repertory theater in the European style, in contrast to Broadway pieces played en suite. In this short time, Shakespeare and Ibsen pieces as well as a musical version of Alice in Wonderland were created .

In 1947 Cheryl Crawford founded the famous Actors Studio in New York together with Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis . Kazan and Lewis were former comrades-in-arms during the group theater period. In 1951, Lee Strasberg was added as artistic director and principal acting teacher.

Selection of theater productions

List of major productions produced by Cheryl Crawford for Broadway.

personal data
SURNAME Crawford, Cheryl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Akron , Ohio, United States
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1986
Place of death New York City , New York, United States