Cheryl Crawford
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.
- 1942 - Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
- 1943 - One Touch of Venus by Kurt Weill
- 1947 - Brigadoon of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
- 1951 - The Tattooed Rose of Tennessee Williams
- 1951 - Paint Your Wagon by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
- 1959 - Sweet Bird Youth from Tennessee Williams
- 1963 - Mother Courage and her children by Bertolt Brecht (with Anne Bancroft as Mother Courage )
- 1964 - Three sisters of Anton P. Chekhov (with Shirley Knight as Irina , Geraldine Page as Olga and Kim Stanley as Mascha )
- 1975 - Yentl by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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 |