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Alan Schneider

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American theatre-director (1917-1984)

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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?

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Filmography 6

Film1965 · ★ 7.0
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'1983
Zalmen, or The Madness of God1975
Waiting for Godot1961
Rockaby1981
Krapp's Last Tape1971

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Awards 2

1963Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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United States
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Directors
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Movie Director
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deceased
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Lived 1917 to 1984 · aged 66
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