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National Theatre Conservatory
The National Theatre Conservatory was a three-year graduate acting school that in its last three decades was part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Founded in 1935 as the only congressionally chartered MFA program in U.S. history, it began in New York and was essentially the national theater company of the United States. Originally named the American National Theatre and Academy, the school operated its own Broadway venue for its last 30 years in New York at what is now the August Wilson Theatre. In 1984 when it ran into financial difficulties, Denver Center founder Donald Seawell transferred the charter and remaining resources to Denver and reopened it as the National Theater Conservatory MFA program. The school closed in June 2012 after graduating eight final students. At the program's height, twenty-four students performed alongside the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company in a 10-play season. With a 3:1 student/teacher ratio and guest instructors inclu ...
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Denver Center For The Performing Arts
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is an organization in Denver, Colorado which provides a showcase for live theatre, a nurturing ground for new plays, a preferred stop on the Broadway touring circuit, acting classes for the community and rental facilities. It was founded in 1972. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is the largest tenant of the Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC) which is a four-block, site containing ten performance spaces with over 10,000 seats. It is owned and partially operated by Arts and Venues Denver. History Both the DCPA and the DPAC were the vision of Donald Seawell. Finding himself at 14th and Curtis streets in downtown Denver one day and looking at the old Auditorium Theatre and the surrounding four blocks, Seawell had an idea for a first-class arts complex. Seawell's original vision was much broader and included other entities (see Previous Entities below) that no longer are part of the Center. Ground was broken in December 1 ...
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Israel Hicks
Israel Theo Hicks (August 23, 1943 – July 3, 2010) was an American theatre director who produced works at regional theaters around the country and Off Broadway, and was best known for his stagings of the entire series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the U.S. during and following the Great Migration. Early life Hicks was born on August 23, 1943 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He moved to Brooklyn, New York City with his family as a child, and spent summers on his grandfather's farm in South Carolina. He developed a love of theatre while attending the Boston University College of Fine Arts and honed his skills while earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University. Lloyd Richards, who directed several of Wilson's plays on Broadway, was a mentor to Hicks at NYU and introduced him to the works of August Wilson.Weber, Bruce"Israel Hicks, Director of August Wilson’s Cycle, Dies at 66" ''The New York Times'', July 7, 2010. Accessed J ...
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Education In Denver
Denver () is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Consolidated city and county, consolidated city and county, the List of capitals in the United States#State capital, capital, and List of municipalities in Colorado#, most populous city of the United States, U.S. Colorado, state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010 United States census, 2010. It is the List of United States cities by population, 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River, South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains (United States), High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the conflue ...
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Defunct Schools In Colorado
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Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American actor. His notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in ''The Omega Man'', a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, '' I Am Legend''; as an Irish Catholic coal miner and one of the Molly Maguires in the 1970 film '' The Molly Maguires''; as a corrupt gambler in ''Farewell, My Lovely''; as the leper colony chief Toussaint in the 1973 historical drama prison film '' Papillon''; as Abner Devereaux in '' Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park''; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond film ''Licence to Kill''; Rosie in '' The Turning Point''; Roger Stuart in '' The Dead Zone''; Admiral Dougherty in '' Star Trek: Insurrection''; and Councillor Hamann in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''. Life and career Zerbe was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Catherine (née Scurlock) and Arthur LeVan Zerbe. He went to Newport Harbor High School. He attended Pomona College ...
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Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor who has a career spanning seven decades in various stage productions, television, film and video games. He has been nominated for Olivier, Tony, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 16 December 1996. In 2010, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. In 1966, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stewart made his Broadway theatre debut in 1971 in a production of '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''. In 1979, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in '' Antony and Cleopatra'' in the West End. His first television role was in the ITV series ''Coronation Street'' in 1967. His first major screen roles were in BBC-broadcast television productions ''Fall of Eagles'' (1974), ''I, Claudius'' (1976), and ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (1979). In 2008 he played King Clau ...
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Marion Ross
Marion Ross (born Marian Ellen Ross; October 25, 1928) is a American former actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham on the ABC television sitcom ''Happy Days'', on which she starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Before her success on ''Happy Days'', Ross appeared in a variety of film roles, appearing in ''The Glenn Miller Story'' (1954), ''Sabrina'' (1954), '' Lust for Life'' (1956), ''Teacher's Pet'' (1958), ''Some Came Running'' (1958), ''Operation Petticoat'' (1959), and ''Honky'' (1971), as well as several minor television roles, one of which was on television's ''The Lone Ranger'' (1954). She was also twice nominated successively in 1992 and 1993 for the Primetime Emmy Award for her performance on the CBS television comedy-drama ''Brooklyn Bridge'' and later netted another Emmy nomination (her fifth and last) in 1999 for a two-episode appearance on the popular CBS drama ''Touched by an Angel''. Ross also ...
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Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was the recipient of five Tony Awards. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for ''Love! Valour! Compassion!'' and '' Master Class'' and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'' and ''Ragtime,'' and received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Luci ...
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Jamie Horton
Gayla Rienette Peevey (born March 8, 1943) is a former singer and child star from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is best known for her recording of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" ( Columbia 4-40106, 1953). Peevey recorded the novelty song when she was 10 years old. In 1960, under the name Jamie Horton, she had a minor hit with the song " Robot Man", a Connie Francis cover. Biography Her family moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1948. Prior to moving to California Gayla attended Columbus Elementary School. Peevey graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Education degree.Biography of Gayla Peevey

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Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show that he developed called ''Mark Twain Tonight!'' while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He continued to perform his signature role for over 60 years, only retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film. Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's ''The Group'' (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film ''All the President's Men''. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1973 miniseries ''Lincoln'' and 1985 miniseries ''North and South''. He also appeared in such films as ''Julia'' (1977), ''The Fog'' (1980) ...
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John Barton (director)
John Bernard Adie Barton, CBE (26 November 1928 – 18 January 2018), was a British theatre director and teacher whose close association with the Royal Shakespeare Company spanned more than half a century. Early life John Barton was the son of Sir Harold Montague and Lady Barton (née Joyce Wale). He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge and while at Cambridge directed and acted in many productions for the Marlowe Society and the ADC. At the Westminster Theatre in July 1953 he directed his first London production, ''Henry V'' for the Elizabethan Theatre Company. He created a 12-part series for BBC Radio on the medieval Mysteries, inspired by the York Mystery Plays. Royal Shakespeare Company John Barton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1960 at the invitation of its founder, Peter Hall In addition to directing plays, his particular responsibility was to improve the quality of verse speaking in the company. He and Peter Hall developed a house ...
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Master Of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts administration. It is a graduate degree that typically requires two to three years of postgraduate study after a bachelor's degree, though the term of study varies by country or university. Coursework is primarily of an applied or performing nature, with the program often culminating in a thesis exhibition or performance. The first university to admit students to the degree of Master of Fine Arts was the University of Iowa in 1940. Requirements A candidate for an MFA typically holds a bachelor's degree prior to admission, but many institutions do not require that the candidate's undergraduate major conform with their proposed path of study in the MFA program. Admissions requirements often consist of a sample portfolio of artworks or a perform ...
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