Richmond Crinkley

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Richmond Crinkley (born 1940 in Blackstone , Virginia , † January 29, 1989 in Richmond , Virginia) was an American producer and theater director.

Crinkley received his BA, MA and PhD from the University of Virginia and was a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford University in England from 1965 to 1976 . He then taught at the University of North Carolina for two years . He achieved his great success in the theater as a long-standing successful producer and director. Perhaps the high point of his career was the production of the play "The Elephant Man" (starring David Bowie ), first produced on Broadway in New York in 1980 , a tragedy of the people exhibited at fairs in 1884 as "Elephant Man". He received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1980 as well as numerous other awards including the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle , Drama Desk Award , Outer Critics Circle Award , The Village Voice OBIES Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award . He produced various successful shows on Broadway such as B. Tintypes and Passions as well as numerous TV productions for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and American Broadcasting Company ABC including Macbeth and Diary of a Madman .

He spent most of his theater career in Washington, DC, where he founded and directed the Folger Theater Group from 1969 to 1973, a forerunner of today's Shakespeare theater. From 1973 to 1976 he was assistant to the director of the Kennedy Center , where he worked for theater productions such as Long Day's Journey Into Night , Sweet Bird Youth , and The Skin of your Teeth . was responsible. In 1976 he became director of the American National Theater in New York and then the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center , where he produced the Elephant Man , In the prestigious Shakespeare Quarterly (1985) he commented in his review of the newly published book by Charlton Ogburn The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth & The Reality his belief that Ogburn had permanently influenced and changed the Shakespeare authorship issue. Richmond Crinkley died of incurable blood cancer at the age of 49.

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  • New Perspectives on The Authorship Question . In: Shakespeare Quarterly 36 (1985), pp. 515-522.

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  • William F. Buckley, Jr, Richmond Crinkley, National Review , March 10, 1989

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SURNAME Crinkley, Richmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American producer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackstone (Virginia) , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1989
Place of death Richmond , Virginia