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John Uecker
John Uecker (8 June 1946 - 24 April 2022) was an American actor and theatre director, who is best known for his work with the writers James Purdy and Tennessee Williams. Early career Uecker studied with Sanford Meisner, Mira Rostova, and Kim Stanley. He also was an assistant to Harold Clurman at the Actors Studio in the Playwrights and Directors Unit. His associations with the Actors Studio and Meisner led to roles in several plays directed by Method and Meisner teachers, including William Alderson and William Esper. He made his Broadway debut in ''The November People'' in 1978 and began working in downtown New York City. During this time, he briefly lived with Candy Darling and started to work with James Purdy. Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams attended a workshop of several James Purdy stories adapted by Uecker and hired him as a general assistant and intermittent editor. Uecker assisted Williams in the writing of many of his later one-act plays, including ''The Chalk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. The director thereby collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff to coordinate research and work on all the aspects of the production which includes the Technical and the Performance aspects. The technical aspects include: stagecraft, costume design, theatrical properties (props), lighting design, set design, and sound design for the production. The performance aspects include: acting, dance, orchestra, chants, and stage combat. If the production is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Linchong
Victoria Linchong () is an American screenwriter, producer, actress and director working in both theater and film. Early life Victoria Linchong was born in New York City and lived in Taiwan for two years at a young age. She attended Hunter College High School and began working at Theater for the New City as an actress in their summer street theater when she was fourteen. Rebelling against her traditional Taiwanese family, she left home at the age of sixteen and lived in the basement of the theater, where she became acquainted with many pioneers of Off-Off Broadway, including several writers who were part of the Caffe Cino. Career Theater Linchong is primarily known for her work with the writer James Purdy, which began at the age of seventeen when she met actor/director John Uecker. Although she had some success as a teenage actress, most notably appearing in the Obie Award-winning play ''Hot Keys'' by Jeff Weiss, she was frustrated with the roles then available to Asian-America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Jason Hale (actor)
Jason Hale (born July 3, 1971) is an American actor, international theatre director, and professor of theatre at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Hale spent over a decade working as a professional actor, performing at many New York and regional ensemble theaters and acting in several independent and feature films, but he is better known as a theatre director and teacher of Method acting and Viola Spolin improvisation, guided by a nearly two-decade association with John Uecker, George Morrison, Mike Nichols, and Paul Sills. In addition to directing plays in the United States, he directed the award-winning 2011 production of Tennessee Williams's ''The Glass Menagerie'' (Sirca Kumes) at the National Turkish State Theater in Ankara. He also directed in Turkey the 2016 production of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love (Aşk Aptalı) in Ankara, Turkey at Tatbikat Sahnesi starring Burcu Özberk, the 2017 First Prize Best University production (Istanbul University Festival) of Clifford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Trammell
Sam Trammell (born January 29, 1969) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Merlotte on the HBO fantasy drama series ''True Blood''. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Miller in ''Ah, Wilderness!'' Career Trammell has worked in theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, and television. His stage credits include a Tony Award-nominated performance in ''Ah, Wilderness!'' at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway, he starred in ''Dealer's Choice'', ''My Night with Reg'', ''If Memory Serves'', and ''Ancestral Voices'', as well as in '' Kit Marlowe'' at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Trammell's big break came when he landed the role of Sam Merlotte on the HBO series ''True Blood''. In 2013, he played Darrell Mackey in the drama film ''White Rabbit''. He played Hazel (Shailene Woodley)'s father, Michael Lancaster, in the 2014 film ''The Fault in Our Stars'', based on the novel of the same name by John Green. In 2019, Tramme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1963) is an American actress, television director, producer, politician, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second oldest daughter of Charles Ingalls (played by Michael Landon) on the NBC series ''Little House on the Prairie''. During the run of ''Little House'', Gilbert appeared in several television films, including ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' and ''The Miracle Worker''. As an adult, she continued her career mainly in television films. Gilbert has also continued with guest starring roles on television and has done voice work for animation such as '' Batman: The Animated Series'' as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl. From 2009 to 2010, Gilbert appeared as Caroline "Ma" Ingalls in the touring production of '' Little House on the Prairie, the Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Butler (comedian)
Brett Butler (born January 30, 1958) is an American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian. She is best known for playing the title role in the ABC comedy series ''Grace Under Fire'' (1993–1998), for which she received two Golden Globe Awards nominations. Life and career Early life Butler was born Brett Anderson in Montgomery, Alabama, the eldest of five sisters. She was four years old when her father, Roland Decatur Anderson Jr., an oil company executive, moved the family to Houston, Texas. Her mother Carol left Roland, an abusive alcoholic, and moved with their children to Miami, Florida. Her mother battled depression, and the family was sometimes so poor that they ate Tootsie Rolls for dinner. Butler briefly attended the University of Georgia. Before experiencing success as a stand-up comic, she worked as a cocktail waitress. In 1978, at the age of 20, Butler married her first husband, Charles Michael Wilson, three months after their meeting. Wilson was abusive and in 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Hunter
Holly Patricia Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film ''The Piano'', Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned three additional Academy Award nominations for '' Broadcast News'' (1987), '' The Firm'' (1993) and ''Thirteen'' (2003). For her roles in the television films '' Roe vs. Wade'' (1989), and ''The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom'' (1993), she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. She also starred in the TNT drama series '' Saving Grace'' (2007–2010). Hunter's other film roles include ''Raising Arizona'' (1987), '' Home for the Holidays'' (1995), ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), ''The Incredibles'' (2004), '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' (2016), and ''The Big Sick'' (2017), the latter of which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gandolfini
James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (; September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor. For his role as Tony Soprano, the Italian-American Mafia crime boss in HBO's television series ''The Sopranos'', he won three Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His portrayal of Tony Soprano has been described as one of the greatest and most influential performances in television history. Gandolfini's film roles include mob henchman Virgil in ''True Romance'' (1993), Lieutenant Bobby Dougherty in '' Crimson Tide'' (1995), Colonel Winter in ''The Last Castle'' (2001), and Mayor of New York in '' The Taking of Pelham 123'' (2009). Other roles are enforcer and stuntman Bear in ''Get Shorty'' (1995) and impulsive "Wild Thing" Carol in ''Where the Wild Things Are'' (2009). For his performance as Albert in ''Enough Said'' (2013), Gandolfini posthumously received much critical praise and several awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California). A grandson of a U.S. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in ''The Nation'', the ''New Statesman'', the ''New York Revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York City. Overview The ''New York Times'' has published a book review section since October 10, 1896, announcing: "We begin today the publication of a Supplement which contains reviews of new books ... and other interesting matter ... associated with news of the day." In 1911, the review was moved to Sundays, on the theory that it would be more appreciatively received by readers with a bit of time on their hands. The target audience is an intelligent, general-interest adult reader. The ''Times'' publishes two versions each week, one with a cover price sold via subscription, bookstores and newsstands; the other with no cover price included as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Dabney
Sheila Dabney is an American actor, best known for her co-starring role in the 1987 lesbian feminist film ''She Must Be Seeing Things'' alongside Lois Weaver and directed by Sheila McLaughlin. In 1984, Dabney won an Obie Award for her performance as Sarita in Maria Irene Fornés' play '' Sarita''. Theater * Performer, ''The Bacchae'' (1980) at Circle in the Square Theatre * Performer, ''The Three Travels of Aladdin With the Magic Lamp'' (1982) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club * Performer, ''Hot Lunch Apostles'' (1983) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club * Performer, ''Conjur Woman'' (1983) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club * Performer, ''Jerusalem'' (1983), a work-in-progress, at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club * Performer, ''Sarita'' (1984), produced by INTAR Theatre * Performer, ''Hot Lunch Apostles'' (1984) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club * Performer, ''Pedro Paramo'' (1984) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club * Performer, ''Harm's Way'' (1985) at La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
