# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-schneider
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:30.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-schneider"
name: "Alan Schneider"
slug: "alan-schneider"
description: "Alan Schneider was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions. In 1984 he was honored with a Drama Desk Special Award for serving a wide range of playwrights. He directed the 1956 American premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Tiny Alice; the American première of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane, Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, as well as Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, and a trilogy of Pinter's plays under the title Other Places ; Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle; You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running; and Michael Weller's Moonchildren and Loose Ends."
tagline: "American theatre-director (1917-1984)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-12-12"
deathDate: "1984-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.94748133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773693/"
    handle:    "nm0773693"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ألان شنايدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الان شنايدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "آلن اشنایدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Schneider"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q575443"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148608"
    title: "Alan Schneider"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump