# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-tavel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:15.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-tavel"
name: "Ronald Tavel"
slug: "ronald-tavel"
description: "Ronald Tavel was an American gay screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, best known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory and the Theatre of the Ridiculous. Tavel was the founder, with the director John Vaccaro, of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous. He received the Obie Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theater in 1969 for the musical drama Boy On the Straight-Back Chair. He also wrote a novel about the pederastic experiences of an expatriate in Tangier, Morocco, called Street of Stairs published by Olympia Press in 1968."
tagline: "Screenwriter, actor, and director (1936-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Ronald_Tavel.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-05-17"
deathDate: "2009-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             15.80459770114943
  historical:           7.073434666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851681/"
    handle:    "nm0851681"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%88_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "رونالڈ ٹیول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Tavel"
    title: "Ronald Tavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رونالد تاڤيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%86%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%B5%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A4%DB%8E%D9%84"
    title: "ڕۆناڵد تاڤێل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Tavel"
    title: "Ronald Tavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Tavel"
    title: "Ronald Tavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Tavel"
    title: "Ronald Tavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Tavel"
    title: "Ronald Tavel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2165773"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18629"
    title: "Ronald Tavel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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