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Alan Schneider
American theatre-director (1917-1984) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 66
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.
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Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'Film, The Director1981RockabyFilm, Director1975
Zalmen, or The Madness of GodFilm, Director1971Krapp's Last TapeFilm, Director1965
FilmFilm, Director1963Tony Award for Best Direction of a PlayAward1961
Waiting for GodotFilm, Director1917Born12 December 1917People around Alan
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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.
