# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-gelber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:50:51.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-gelber"
name: "Jack Gelber"
slug: "jack-gelber"
description: "Jack Gelber was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama The Connection, depicting the life of drug-addicted jazz musicians. The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nations. Gelber continued to work and write in New York, where he also taught writing, directing and drama as a professor, chiefly at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he created the MFA program in playwriting. In 1999 he received the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in theatre."
tagline: "American playwright (1932–2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-04-12"
deathDate: "2003-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.91
  momentum:             9.090909090909088
  historical:           8.540353333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312215/"
    handle:    "nm0312215"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gelber"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "جاك غيلبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "جاك جيلبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gelber"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gelber"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gelber"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gelber"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%AD_%EA%B2%94%EB%B2%84"
    title: "잭 겔버"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gelber"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973544"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/227526"
    title: "Jack Gelber"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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