Alan Schneider
Theatre Director, Film director
1917 – 1984
Who was Alan Schneider?
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.
Mr. Schneider also directed Samuel Beckett's only direct foray into the world of film, entitled "Film", The short subject starred Buster Keaton and its direction is often mis-attributed to Samuel Beckett himself, notably during an exhibit at the Louvre in November 2006. "Film" is silent and based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi'.
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- Born
- Dec 12, 1917
Kharkiv - Also known as
- Alan Leo Schneider
- Abram Leopoldovich Schneider
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Cornell University
Drama
( - 1941) - Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Literature
( - 1939) - Political Science
- Master of Arts, Cornell University
- Lived in
- California
(1979 - )
- California
- Died
- May 3, 1984
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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