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Robert Brustein

American writer (1927-2023) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 96

Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theater critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator.

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2023Died29 October 20231964George Polk AwardAward1961George Jean Nathan AwardAwardGuggenheim FellowshipAward1927Born21 April 1927

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Awards

George Polk Award1964
Guggenheim Fellowship1961
George Jean Nathan Award1961
National Medal of Arts
Fulbright Scholarship

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He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2023 · aged 96

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