Walter Hadler is an American playwright and theater director. Hadler was a resident playwright at
Theatre Genesis during the 1960s, along with
Murray Mednick
Murray Mednick (born 1939) is an American playwright and poet. He is best known as founder of the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival, where he served as artistic director from 1978 to 1995. He has received numerous awards for his plays, i ...
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Sam Shepard, and Tony Barsha. Hadler and Mednick became co-directors of the theater in 1969, and Hadler continued to operate it from 1974 to 1978 following Mednick's departure.
Hadler later wrote and directed productions for
Padua Playwrights
Padua Playwrights Productions, or Padua, is a Los Angeles-based theater company founded in 1978 by playwright and poet Murray Mednick. The site-specific Workshop/Festival ceased operation in 1995 and reemerged in 2001 under the artistic direction ...
, a Los Angeles theater company founded by Mednick.
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American dramatists and playwrights
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